John Bemelmans Marciano was born in 1970 and never had the chance to meet his famous grandfather, Ludwig Bemelmans. But he has carried on the legacy of Madeline in a new series of picture books that pay loving homage to the beloved character his grandfather created in 1939. Bemelmans Marciano brings his own voice and charming illustration style to the new generation of Madeline stories.
Dr. John Gabrieli is on the faculty at MIT, in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. Dr. Gabrieli’s research focuses on the brain mechanisms of memory, cognition, and emotion in the human brain, and how those mechanisms are disrupted in neurological disorders, including dyslexia.
