Author. He first met Margret Waldstein at her sister's 16th birthday party. They met again in the 1930s in Brazil when he was a bathtub salesman and Margret and her family were refugees from the Nazi regime. They married in 1935 and moved to Paris, France, shortly thereafter. Hans' drawings of animals caught the attention of a French publisher who then asked Hans to write a children's book, "Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys." One of the monkeys, Curious George, eventually became the main character of a series of books that Hans and Margret wrote together with their last name shortened to Rey. Shortly before the Nazis invaded Paris in 1940, the couple fled the city and moved to the United States. The first Curious George book was published by Houghton Mifflin in New York City in 1941; subsequent books depicted the monkey as living in the care of the Man with the Yellow Hat. The Reys eventually settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they lived from 1963 until his death in 1977.
Author. He first met Margret Waldstein at her sister's 16th birthday party. They met again in the 1930s in Brazil when he was a bathtub salesman and Margret and her family were refugees from the Nazi regime. They married in 1935 and moved to Paris, France, shortly thereafter. Hans' drawings of animals caught the attention of a French publisher who then asked Hans to write a children's book, "Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys." One of the monkeys, Curious George, eventually became the main character of a series of books that Hans and Margret wrote together with their last name shortened to Rey. Shortly before the Nazis invaded Paris in 1940, the couple fled the city and moved to the United States. The first Curious George book was published by Houghton Mifflin in New York City in 1941; subsequent books depicted the monkey as living in the care of the Man with the Yellow Hat. The Reys eventually settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they lived from 1963 until his death in 1977.
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