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Extended Biography
David A. Carter was born on March 4, 1957, to Lavon and Craig Carter at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains, home to some of the best powder skiing in the world. He's have been an artist and a skier ever since.
Carter was reared in Bountiful, Utah. He attended Adelaide Elementary, South Davis Junior High, and graduated by the skin of his teeth from Viewmont High School in 1975.
Carter attended Utah State University in Logan, Utah, on an art scholarship. While at USU, he studied illustration and art. When his money ran out, he moved back to Salt Lake City where he worked in the graphic design and advertising business until 1980.
In 1980 Carter moved to Los Angeles, seeking fame and fortune—or at least a good job. After working many jobs as a graphic designer and paste up artist, he went to work for Waldo Hunt at Intervisual Communications Inc. Over the next seven years, while working with ICI's creative director Jim Diaz and various other artists such as David Pelham, Jan Pienkowski, and John Strejan, Carter learned the fine art of paper engineering and pop-up bookmaking. He created How Many Bugs in a Box? while at ICI. He also met his wife, Noelle, there. The couple was married in 1985.
In 1987 Carter left ICI to start his own business. Since then he's created more than seventy pop-up books, including the Bugs in a Box series-with U.S. and international sales of more than 6.5 million copies; Easter Bugs, which is a New York Times number-one bestseller for three years in a row; The Elements of Pop-Up, which was chosen as an ALA Pick of the List; and his most recent book One Red Dot, which was awarded the H. C. Andersen award in Italy.
In 1989 Carter's first daughter, Molly, was born. In 1990 his family moved from Santa Monica to Auburn, California, and in 1993 their second daughter, Emma, was born.
Carter loves to ski, ride roller coasters, collect and make wine, grow vegetables and native plants, play tennis, and travel.
He volunteers as much time as possible, sharing his work with elementary children.
His motto is: Have fun!
He loves his work and family. Life is good.
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