Susanne Suba

Susanne Suba (1913–2012) was a Hungarian-born watercolorist and illustrator, active in the United States.

Early life

Suba was born Zsuzsanna Suba in Budapest, Hungary, on December 13, 1913, to May Edwards Suba, a pianist of Brooklyn, New York and Miklos Suba, an architect and artist. She drew from an early age, sitting beside her father as he worked.

Some time in the early 1920s her family emigrated and settled in Brooklyn, New York; her father arrived in 1924, but her drawings show Suba herself was already there in 1922.

She illustrated books, including an edition Henry David Thoreau’s Life Without Principle (her first book illustration), and over 25 children's books, some by her husband.

Personal life

Suba married Russell McCracken, a writer and editor. Additional papers, covering 1972–1976, are in the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi.