Lynn c johnston biography

Lynn Johnston

Johnston was born in Collingwood, Ontario Canada, and grew up in British Columbia. Her father was a jeweller, her mother a calligrapher and bookkeeper.

Johnston attended the Vancouver School of Art — hoping to make a career as an artist. Her main interest was animation. After two years of Art College, she took a job in an animation studio in Vancouver, where she worked in the ink and paint department, and began to apprentice as an animator.

Shortly after getting married, she moved to Ontario in 1969, and got a job as a medical illustrator at McMaster University.

In 1972 she discovered that she was expecting her first child, Aaron, and left McMaster to work at home. Her obstetrician challenged her to do some drawings for the ceilings above his examining tables. These were published in a book called "David, We're Pregnant," which sold over 300,000 copies.

Shortly after the publication of her first book, she was divorced and worked as a co