Trina Schart Hyman dies at 65.(news)(Obituary)

Trina Schart Hyman, an award-winning author and illustrator of children's books who was known for her rich and detailed work with fairy tales and folklore, died in New Hampshire on November 17 of complications resulting from breast cancer. She was 65.

Hyman was born in Philadelphia and attended the Philadelphia Museum School and the Boston Museum School. She got her first illustrating job in Sweden in 1963, where she was living with her then-husband, Harris, on a Swedish book that took her almost five months to read. When she returned to New York later that year, she illustrated Children of the Salmon (Little, Brown, 1965) by Eileen O'Faolain, which was the first of …