Art Coulson Trivia & Ephemera
Favorite city
Rome. Italy, not New York or Georgia
Favorite food
Grandma’s tacos
Favorite color
Blue, though Art is blue/green colorblind. So it might actually be green
First job
Paperboy for The Virginian-Pilot/Ledger-Star in Norfolk, Va.
Favorite job
Fry cook at Duff’s Smorgasbord
Number of states visited
49
States he still wants to visit
Oregon. Then Art will start to work his way through U.S. territories.
Favorite song
Brokedown Palace by the Grateful Dead
Enjoy it!
Favorite singer
Tom Waits
What? Even more music?
Favorite book
American Gods by Neil Gaiman, and Lexicon by Max Barry (tie)
Favorite movie
Trilogy of Terror (1975)
Favorite sport
Cherokee stickball
Favorite animal
Bigfoot
Musical instruments played
Trumpet, guitar, harmonica, piano (one song, really badly)
Languages spoken
English (fluently) and conversational French, Spanish, Italian, Ojibwe and Cherokee
Mac or PC?
Mac all the way since 1984
All About Art
A Navy brat, Art was born in Honolulu, where he lived for his first 7 months. Art and his family moved often, sometimes more than once a year. Art attended 14 different schools on three continents before he graduated high school.
Art’s first children’s book, The Creator’s Game, a story about a young lacrosse player, was published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press in 2013. Since then, he has published a number of other books and short stories for children. His most recent book, Chasing Bigfoot, was published in 2022 by Reycraft Books. Art was named the McKnight Fellow in Children’s Literature in 2023.
Before writing children’s books, Art was a writer and editor at magazines and newspapers all over the United States. After his journalism career, Art served as the first executive director of the Wilma Mankiller Foundation in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
Now, Art splits his time between his home in Minneapolis and his cabin in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.
Author photo by Ne-Dah-Ness Rose Greene
All About Art
A Navy brat, Art was born in Honolulu, where he lived for his first 7 months. Art and his family moved often, sometimes more than once a year. Art attended 14 different schools on three continents before he graduated high school.
Art’s first children’s book, The Creator’s Game, a story about a young lacrosse player, was published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press in 2013. Since then, he has published a number of other books and short stories for children. His most recent book, Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi! was published in 2021 as part of Charlesbridge’s Storytelling Math series of picture books.
Before writing children’s books, Art was a writer and editor at magazines and newspapers all over the United States. After his journalism career, Art served as the first executive director of the Wilma Mankiller Foundation in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
Now, Art splits his time between his home in Minneapolis and his cabin in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.
Art Coulson Trivia & Ephemera
Favorite city
Rome. Italy, not New York or Georgia
Favorite food
Grandma’s tacos
Favorite color
Blue, though Art is blue/green colorblind. So it might actually be green
First job
Paperboy for The Virginian-Pilot/Ledger-Star in Norfolk, Va.
Favorite job
Fry cook at Duff’s Smorgasbord
Number of states visited
48
States he still wants to visit
Oregon and Alaska
Favorite song
Brokedown Palace by the Grateful Dead
Enjoy it!
Favorite singer
Tom Waits
What? Even more music?
Favorite book
American Gods by Neil Gaiman, and Lexicon by Max Barry (tie)
Favorite movie
Trilogy of Terror (1975)
Favorite sport
Cherokee stickball
Favorite animal
Bigfoot
Musical instruments played
Trumpet, guitar, harmonica, piano (one song, really badly)
Languages spoken
English (fluently) and conversational French, Spanish, Italian, Ojibwe and Cherokee
Mac or PC?
Mac all the way since 1984