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Peter Brown (illustrator)

American writer and illustrator

For other people of that name, see Peter Brown (disambiguation).

Peter Brown is an American writer and illustrator who is best known for children's picture books. He won a Caldecott Honor in 2013 for his illustration of Creepy Carrots!^[1]^[2]

Biography

Brown was raised in Hopewell, New Jersey and studied illustration at Art Center College of Design. After graduating, he moved to New York City in 2002 to be closer to the publishing industry. He was working on animated TV shows when he signed a book deal to write and illustrate his first picture book, Flight of the Dodo.^[3]

Brown quickly wrote his second and third books, and his career as an author and illustrator of children’s books was under way. Since then Brown has written and illustrated many books for children and earned numerous honors, including a Caldecott Honor, a Horn Book Award, two E.B. White Awards, two E.B. White Honors, a Children’s Choice Award for Illustrator of the Year, two Irma Black Honors, a Golden Kite

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Once pilloried, now a pillar, Peter Brown has done it all: Controversial Canaccord Capital boss warily returns to the limelight as entrepreneur of the year

By Ian Mulgrew
Vancouver Sun, Nov. 23, 2001

Thirty years ago, Peter Brown was the Penny Stock King.

Twenty years ago, he was Western Canada’s most renowned Cowboy Capitalist.

Ten years ago, he was a lightning rod for criticism and all that was supposedly wrong with the Vancouver Stock Exchange.

This year, he was named the Pacific Region’s entrepreneur of the year — a recognized pillar of the B.C. establishment and nationally celebrated for his achievements.

Yet, he is ambivalent about the award, sponsored by international accounting giant Ernst & Young, because it has pushed him back into the limelight, brought reporters back to his doorstep and his face to a magazine cover. ”I’m trying to stay out of the media,” Brown said when first approached for an interview.

“It’s distasteful to me.”

More than a decade ago, in fact, he abandoned public life to get his privacy back, rankled at how the media tattled abo

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Peter M. Brown

Canadian businessman (born 1941)

Peter M. Brown (born December 15, 1941) is a Canadian businessman. He founded Canaccord Financial (now Canaccord Genuity), which has become the largest independent investment dealer in Canada.^[1] He retired in 2014.^[2]

Early life

Peter MacLachlan Brown was born in Vancouver, like his father, Ralph, and grandfather before him. Peter Brown's grandfather Brenton was a well-connected businessman and power broker of his time, head of the Crown Life Insurance Co., onetime president of the Vancouver Board of Trade,^[3] and a founder of the right-of-centre municipal NPA party.^[4] His grandson would one day follow in his footsteps.

Peter Brown attended the private Shawnigan Lake School^[5] and later St. George's School, where he graduated in 1958, as did his brothers Ralph ’53, Alan ’54, and Robert ’68; and his sons James ’86 and Jason ’89.^[6] He studied at the University of British Columbia, entering at age 15^[7] and “majoring in partying”,^[8] but