Ruth Stiles Gannett

Ruth Stiles Gannett was born in 1923. She attended the City and Country School in Greenwich Village, where, she later recalled, children were encouraged to write for fun, and then the George School and Vassar College, where she earned a degree in chemistry in 1944. After college she worked in Boston at a hospital and a radiation laboratory before returning to her parents' home, where she finished her first book. My Father's Dragon (1948) tells of a boy who sets off to rescue a baby dragon held captive on an island. It was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal and was followed by Elmer and the Dragon (1950) and The Dragons of Blueland (1951). The books were illustrated by her stepmother, Ruth Chrisman Gannett, and have been translated into fourteen languages. In 1947 she married the artist and calligrapher H. Peter Kahn, who designed the books' typography, and they had seven daughters. She lived for many years in Trumansburg, New York, near Cornell University. She died in 2024, aged 100.

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