Short answers, pulled from the story.
Ingri Mortenson entered the world on the 27th of December 1904 in Kongsberg Norway. Her uncle translated the Icelandic Eddas into Norwegian poetry and set his own verses to music by Edvard Grieg.
Edgar Parin arrived in Munich Germany on the 30th of September 1898. At age twelve he began studying architecture for one year in Munich before enrolling at the School of Arts and Crafts known as Kunstgewerbeschule.
The d'Aulaires won the third annual Caldecott Medal in 1940 for Abraham Lincoln. This picture-book life covered the sixteenth U.S. President and received recognition from the American Library Association for the previous year's most distinguished American picture book.
Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths published by Doubleday in 1962 contained 192 pages across 46 chapters. It served as an elaborately illustrated compendium of Greek mythology.
They lived and worked in Wilton Connecticut from 1941 until their deaths. They also maintained a farm in Royalton Vermont while producing twenty-seven illustrated books for children using travel experiences as inspiration.