Stuart J. Murphy is a visual learning specialist and children?s book author. Murphy was born and raised in Rockville, Connecticut, and studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. Before co-founding Ligature, a Chicago-based design firm that developed Social Studies, Reading, Science, and Math textbook programs for educational publishers with his business partner Richard Anderson in 1980, Murphy worked as Art Director at Ginn and Company, a Boston-based publisher. While at Ginn, he took a company-sponsored sabbatical to advise on art restorations in Venice, Italy in 1973-74. In 1995, the first three books in Murphy?s 63 book MathStart series were published by HarperCollins Children?s Books. MathStart books teach mathematical skills such as identifying patterns, skip counting and solving for unknowns through a combination of storytelling and visual learning strategies. The series is divided into 3 levels for children ages Pre-K through Grade 4. Taken separately, the 21 Level 1 books comprise one of the largest Pre-K math series available. 

January 1st, 1942 in (Age 82)