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Shortest Bio

Molly Ruttan is an author/illustrator of children’s books. Originally from New York, Molly now lives in the diverse and historic neighborhood of Echo Park in Los Angeles. Her titles include her author/illustrated books The Stray and Something Wild (both Nancy Paulsen Books); and she has illustrated I Am A Thief! and Violet and the Crumbs: A Gluten-Free Adventure, (both by Abigail Rayner, North South Books) as well as The Yowlers, (by Stacy Lynne Carroll, Nancy Paulson Books). She has several additional books forthcoming.

Molly is represented by Rachel Orr at Prospect Agency, www.prospectagency.com.

To see Molly’s illustration, purchase books & view her book trailers, go to https://linktr.ee/mollyruttan

Shorter Bio

Molly Ruttan is an author/illustrator of children’s books. She grew up making art and music in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York and earned a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art. Molly now lives in the diverse and historic neighborhood of Echo Park in Los Angeles. Molly plays drums, sings in a community choir and has recently dabbled with learning the viola. She also loves exploring all kinds of fine art and illustration mediums, including making her own animated book trailers. Her life is full of art, music, family, friends and all kinds of pets and urban animals.

Molly’s titles include her author/illustrated books The Stray and Something Wild (both Nancy Paulsen Books); and she has illustrated I Am A Thief! and Violet and the Crumbs: A Gluten-Free Adventure, (both by Abigail Rayner, North South Books) as well as The Yowlers, (by Stacy Lynne Carroll, Nancy Paulson Books). She has several additional books forthcoming.

Molly is represented by Rachel Orr at Prospect Agency, www.prospectagency.com.

To see Molly’s illustration, purchase books & view her book trailers, go to https://linktr.ee/mollyruttan

Longer Bio

Molly Ruttan is an author/illustrator of children’s books. She grew up making art and music in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. She went on to earn a BFA in graphic design from the Cooper Union School of Art, while drumming in an art-punk band. Currently, Molly lives, works and creates art and music in the diverse and historic neighborhood of Echo Park in Los Angeles, where she and her husband raised three talented children.

Molly loves exploring all kinds of fine art and illustration mediums, including making her own animated book trailers. She has an identical twin sister, (who is also an artist); she still plays the drums, sings in a community choir and has recently dabbled in learning the viola. Her life is full of art, music, family, friends and all kinds of pets and urban animals—even wild parrots!

Her book titles include her author/illustrator debut, The Stray, (2020 Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Random House) which was listed as a 2021 ALA CORE Golden Duck Notable Picture Book; her illustration debut I Am A Thief! by Abigail Rayner, (2019 North South Books) which earned a starred Kirkus review and won a 2021 Northern Lights Book Award for humor; Violet and the Crumbs: A Gluten-Free Adventure by Abigail Rayner (2022 North South Books), which has been endorsed by the Celiac Disease Foundation; Something Wild, Molly’s second author/illustrated book, which has received a starred Kirkus review & is included in Dolly Parton's 2024 Imagination Library;; and The Yowlers, written by Stacy Lynn Carroll, (Nancy Paulsen Books). She currently has several additional books forthcoming.

Molly is represented by Rachel Orr at Prospect Agency, www.prospectagency.com.

To see Molly’s illustration, purchase books & view her book trailers, go to https://linktr.ee/mollyruttan