BiographyMarilyn Quilitzsch was born in 1930, the daughter of Anna Eisenhardt Quilitzsch and Gustave W. Quilitzsch of Newington, Connecticut. She studied graphic design at New York University and Parsons. She worked in an agency in Hartford, Connecticut, then became the Art Director for the school district in Glastonbury, Connecticut. She married Michael Vignone in Newington, Connecticut, in 1956.