Ruth Stiles Gannett
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Education
Gannett graduated from City and Country School in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the class of 1937. There, she recalled in 2012, "she benefited from being 'allowed and encouraged to write for fun' at certain times of the day".[1] She then attended Vassar College, graduating with a B.A. in chemistry in 1944.[2][3]
Writing career
Gannett's first novel, My Father's Dragon, was published by Random House in 1948[2] and was a runner-up for the annual Newbery Medal recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution" to American children's literature. She wrote two more novels in that series, Elmer and the Dragon and The Dragons of Blueland. The books were illustrated by Ruth Chrisman Gannett, her stepmother,[3][lower-alpha 1] and the typography was designed by her husband, H. Peter Kahn.[citation needed] They have been translated into fourteen languages.[4]
Gannett wrote two other short children's novels, The Wonderful House-Boat-Train (1949) and Katie and the Sad Noise (1961), illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg and Ellie Simmons.
Kirkus Reviews covered two of the books briefly, showing disappointment in both Gannett's and Eichenberg's work on the house-boat-train and unusual enthusiasm for Gannett's story in a starred review of The Dragons of Blueland.[5]
Personal life
Ruth Gannett married artist, art history professor,[6] and calligrapher H. Peter Kahn, (1921–1997).[7] The couple have seven daughters and eight grandchildren.[6] She lives near Trumansburg, New York, near Cornell University, where Peter Kahn was employed for forty years.[4][7] She is the great-granddaughter of Ezra Stiles Gannett.[8]
Works
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- My Father's Dragon series
Sometimes called the "Elmer and the Dragons series", the three short novels were written by Ruth Stiles Gannett and illustrated by her stepmother Ruth Chrisman Gannett.[9]
- My Father's Dragon (Random House, 1948)
- Elmer and The Dragon (Random House, 1950)
- The Dragons of Blueland (Random House, 1951)
50th Anniversary omnibus edition: Three Tales of My Father's Dragon (Random House, 1998), OCLC 37030387.[10]
- The Wonderful House-boat-train, illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg (Random, 1949), 63 pp. LCCN 49-11981
- Katie and the Sad Noise, illus. Ellie Simmons (Random, 1961), 61 pp. OCLC 1843354
Gannett introduced the 1991 Yearling edition of Edith Nesbit's collection The Book of Dragons (OCLC 696817759), later issued in the Looking Glass Library (2013, OCLC 869499406).
Notes
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- Author biography from Random House
- Information on Ruth Stiles Gannett
- Works by Ruth Stiles Gannett at Project Gutenberg
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- Works by Ruth Stiles Gannett at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Ruth Stiles Gannett at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Ruth Stiles Gannett at Library of Congress Authorities, with 14 catalog records
- Ruth Chrisman Gannett at LC Authorities, with 16 records (mainly under 'Gannett, Ruth Chrisman' without '1896–1979', previous page of browse report)
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Google Books.[page needed]
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. With linked "List of books" in print by Scholastic.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. "Portions of this article were originally published in The Ithaca Journal and Ithaca Times, November 6, 2008."
- ↑ "The Wonderful House-Boat-Train by Ruth Stiles Gannett" [1949].
"The Dragons of Blueland by Ruth Stiles Gannett" [1951].
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- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. "[A] man whose life was dedicated to art, especially the arts of fine printing and the handmade book. A prolific typographer, illustrator and book designer as well as a painter, the German-born artist was a member of the Cornell community for forty years."
- ↑ [1] Marilynn Munoz genealogy site, retrieved December 26, 2014
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Gannett, Ruth Chrisman, 1896–1979". Library of Congress Authorities (lccn.loc.gov). Retrieved September 22, 2014.
- ↑ "Publisher description for Three tales of my father's dragon {...}". Library of Congress Catalog (catdir.loc.gov). Retrieved September 22, 2014.
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