Book Jacket Bios

This book jacket biography is not of the author of the book shown above but of its illustrator. The book is Black Majesty: The Life of Chris...

Ellen May Turngren was born on May 6, 1885, in Montrose, Minnesota. She was a teacher, newspaper editor, private secretary, bookkeeper, and...

Mary Ellen Chase was born on February 28, 1887, in Blue Hill, Maine. As a ten-year-old, she met Maine author Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)...

  The cover of The All New Mad Secret File on Spy vs Spy by Antonio Prohías, his first such collection, published by Signet in 1965, plus t...

Last time I wrote about Lou and Zena Shumsky , authors of the young person's novel First Flight (1962). (She was really the author. Her...

Louis Shumsky was born into a large family on January 9, 1919, in Norma, New Jersey. His parents, Joseph and Esther Shumsky, were Russian-J...

Iris Owens was born Iris Klein on November 25, 1929, in Brooklyn, New York. Her father, Max Klein , was born in Austria. Klein was a profe...