He was a two-time nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award and is the recipient of the Bradford Washburn Award, presented by the Museum of Science in Boston to an outstanding contributor to science. His numerous awards include the MacArthur Fellows Program award, the Caldecott Medal, won for his book Black and White, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, the Washington Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, and a Dutch Silver Slate Pencil Award. Time magazine said of his work, "What draws, he draws better than any other pen-and-ink illustrator in the world". Macaulay's books have sold more than two million copies in the United States, been translated into a dozen languages, and been widely praised. He spent his fifth year at RISD in the European Honors Program, studying in Rome, Herculaneum and Pompeii. After graduating from high school in Cumberland, Rhode Island in 1964, he enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), from which he received a bachelor's degree in architecture. He began drawing while in the United States. Born in Lancashire, UK, Macaulay moved to Bloomfield, New Jersey at the age of eleven.
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