Biography:

Illustrator, librarian. Born– Albany, N.Y., August 5, 1908. Parents– Gustave M. and Mary Ida Braune.  Spent her childhood in Cincinnati, Ohio; Chapel Hill, N.C.; and Fairhope, Ala. Studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts, and at a school in Monton, France. Worked as a librarian at Fairhope and in the personnel division of a large corporation in Mobile. Died November 26, 1988.

Source:

Files at Birmingham Public Library and Alabama Department of Archives and History; ancestry.com

Publication(s):

Honey Chile. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1937.

Wonderful Toys. New York; Harper and Row, 1990.

Illustrator:

The Bojabi Tree. 1956 edition. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1956.

Timothy’s Tunes. Boston; Boston Music Co., 1943.

Up Creek and Down Creek. New York; Random House, 1936.