Education
Born in Jackson County, Michigan, Holling graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1923.
Born in Jackson County, Michigan, Holling graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1923.
In 1966, Bill Mason directed the Oscar-nominated short film Paddle to the Sea, based on Holling"s book, for the National Film Board of Canada. A number of his early works were first published by P. F. Volland & Company He worked in a taxidermy department of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and spent time working in anthropology under Doctor Ralph Linton.
Foreign many years, Holling dedicated much of his time and interest to making books for children.
Holling wrote and illustrated a full-page Sunday comic strip titled Each strip included a diorama which could be cut out and assembled into a 3-Doctorate scene of, for example, a buffalo hunt or an undersea panorama.