Carol Stuart Watson

• Name — Carol Stuart Watson • Birth Name — Carol Stuart • Born — 14 August 1931 • Birthplace — Washington D.C., United States • Died — 19 January 1986 • Place of death — Bethesda, Maryland, United States • Education — University of Maryland (1929-32) • Occupation — Illustrator Publisher • Spouse — David Watson

Watson was born at Georgetown Hospital in Washington D.C. and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. She graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. She went on to earn a bachelor's degree in fine arts and journalism from the University of Maryland.

Watson started her career working at the Times-Herald. In 1954 she co-founded The Georgetowner, a community newspaper in the Georgetown area of Washington D.C. In 1960 she co-founded Carriage Trade Publications with her husband, David Deshler Watson. Her illustrations could be seen anywhere from the lobby's of companies like Martin Marietta, to the National Park Visitors Center in Harper’s Ferry, WV to the maps of local communities. She was most well known for her illustrations that appeared in books like Where’s Rachel, Hurrah for Arthur! A Mount Vernon Birthday Party, Flower Fables, Hey, ey-ey-Lock – Adventures on the C&O Canal and Upstairs and Downstairs in a Victorian Doll House. Watson and her husband ran Carriage Trade Publications until 1979 when she took a position as an illustrator for the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.