Ruth Krauss

Poet

Birthday July 25, 1901

Birth Sign Leo

Birthplace Maryland

DEATH DATE Jul 10, 1993 (91)

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About

An American children's author and poet, she is best known for her 1945 work The Carrot Seed. Her other notable works include The Happy Egg, Somebody Spilled the Sky, and The Cantilever Rainbow.

Before Fame

She studied at the Parson School of Design in New York City. She published her first illustrated work, A Good Man and His Good Wife, in 1944.

Trivia

She joined the Writers' Laboratory at New York's Bank Street College of Education in the 1940s.

Family Life

She married Crockett Johnson, a fellow children's book author, in 1941.

Associated With

Her contributions to children's literature were lauded by fellow author Maurice Sendak.