Dayal Kaur Khalsa | |
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 Dayal Kaur Khalsa at her studio in Montreal in the 1980s | |
| Born | April 17, 1943 |
| Died | July 17, 1989 (aged 46) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Alma mater | City College of New York |
| Occupation(s) | author, illustrator |
Dayal Kaur Khalsa (April 17, 1943 – July 17, 1989) was the American-born author and illustrator of numerous award-winning children's books. She discovered her talent in Canada, where she had moved in 1970. Over the span of four short years before her death at the age of 46, she managed to write and illustrate eight picture books, three of them published posthumously.