Ruth Krauss
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Ruth Krauss (July 25, 1901-1993) was an American writer of children's books, including The Carrot Seed and a collection of adult poems.
Many of her books are now in print.
Early life and education
Ruth Krauss was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Julius Leopold and Blanche Krauss on July 25, 1901. Ruth had various health issues as an infant, including the rare autoimmune disorder pemphigus. She began writing and illustrating her own stories when she was a child, hand sewing her pages into books.
Ruth attended a local high school but was unable to pursue art study in 1917 after her sophomore year. She enrolled in the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts (now known as the Maryland Institute College of Art). The school's emphasis on applied arts was not suitable, and she left after about a year. She returned to writing at Camp Walden, Maine, where she discovered her passion for writing; the camp yearbook for 1919 includes her first published piece of writing. She spent some time studying violin in the Peabody Institute of Music's preparatory program after the camp. She was praised as a natural but undisciplined singer by her mentors, but her teachers dismissed her as a natural performer.
Ruth's father died in late 1921, requiring Ruth to drop out of school. She worked in a variety of corporate roles. She decided to enroll at Parsons School of Design in New York in 1927. Graduating from Parsons in 1929, she found it difficult to work as an illustrator as the Great Depression was onset. The first pictorial book jacket for the Modern Library, which she did not find in this period, was one of the first pictorial book jackets (Alice in Wonderland, 1932).
Ruth was a member of the Writers' Laboratory at the Bank Street College of Education in New York during the 1940s.
Ruth married journalist and crime novelist Lionel White in the 1930s; they divorced shortly before World War II.
Personal life and career
Ruth Krauss married children's book author Crockett Johnson in 1943. They collaborated on many books, among them The Carrot Seed, How to Make an Earthquake, Is This You? and The Happy Egg.
Another eight of her books were illustrated by Maurice Sendak, starting with A Hole Is to Dig (1952), which launched Sendak's career. The Krauss-Sendak collaborations spawned a host of imitators of their "unruly" and "rebellious" child protagonists. The peculiar definitional phrasing of Krauss's writing in this book—with sentences like "A party is to make little children happy"—became something of a cultural phenomenon when the book was first published and has helped to maintain its popularity.
Krauss also illustrated a few of her own books. In addition to her books for children, Krauss wrote three collections of poetry and plays in verse for adults.