Robert E. Neale is a preeminent American paperfolder and magician, who has written several books on the combination of the two. Among them are:

• Folding Money Fooling
• Frog Tales

Robert Neale is also a prominent member of OrigamiUSA

OrigamiUSA

OrigamiUSA is the largest origami organization in the United States, with offices located at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. It was founded in 1980 by Michael Shall, Alice Gray, and Lillian Oppenheimer as the Friends of the Origami Center of America...

. He is known for his simple yet elegant origami

Origami

is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, which started in the 17th century AD at the latest and was popularized outside Japan in the mid-1900s. It has since then evolved into a modern art form...

 models, and has pushed the limits of representational origami. He has also contributed to the field of modular origami

Modular origami

Modular origami, or unit origami, is a paperfolding technique which uses multiple sheets of paper to create a larger and more complex structure than would be possible using single-piece origami techniques...

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