From Small Bits of Charcoal/De Petits Morceaux De Charbon The Life and Works of a Cajun Artis/LA Vie Et L'Ieyvre D'UN Artiste Cadjin

Floyd Sonnier (1933-2002), known to many as "The Artist of the Cajuns," was a lifelong resident of the Cajun Country of south Louisiana. An internationally acclaimed pen-and-ink artist, he graduated in commercial art from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette in 1961 after serving a brief stint in the U.S. Army. In a prolific career that spanned a quarter of a century, he specialized in drawings that depict life in the old-time Cajun culture, particularly scenes set in the first half of the Twentieth Century.Sonnier, Floyd is the author of 'From Small Bits of Charcoal/De Petits Morceaux De Charbon The Life and Works of a Cajun Artis/LA Vie Et L'Ieyvre D'UN Artiste Cadjin' with ISBN 9780925417466 and ISBN 0925417467.