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Ruth Stiles Gannett was born on 12 August, 1923 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., is an American children's writer (born 1923). Discover Ruth Stiles Gannett's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 100 years old?

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Occupation Writer
Age 100 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 12 August, 1923
Birthday 12 August
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1921

Ruth Gannett married artist, art history professor, and calligrapher H. Peter Kahn, (1921–1997).

The couple had seven daughters and eight grandchildren at the time of Kahn's death.

She lives near Trumansburg, New York, near Cornell University, where Peter Kahn was employed for forty years.

She is the great-granddaughter of Ezra Stiles Gannett.

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.

1923

Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn (born August 12, 1923) is an American children's writer best known for My Father's Dragon and its two sequels—collectively sometimes called the My Father's Dragon or the Elmer and the Dragons series or trilogy.

1937

Gannett graduated from City and Country School in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the class of 1937.

1944

She then attended the George School and Vassar College, graduating with a B.A. in chemistry in 1944.

After graduating from Vassar, Gannett moved to Boston where she worked at Boston General Hospital and then at the Massachusetts Radiation Laboratory.

She then worked at a ski lodge, and afterward returned to live with her parents which is where she completed work on her most defining work.

1947

In 1947 the year her seminal work was published she married Peter Kahn.

1948

Gannett's first novel, My Father's Dragon, was published by Random House in 1948 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, and the typography was designed by her husband, H. Peter Kahn.

They have been translated into fourteen languages.

1949

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.

1991

Gannett introduced the 1991 Yearling edition of Edith Nesbit's collection The Book of Dragons, later issued in the Looking Glass Library (2013, ).

1998

50th Anniversary omnibus edition: Three Tales of My Father's Dragon (Random House, 1998),.

2012

There, she recalled in 2012, "she benefited from being 'allowed and encouraged to write for fun' at certain times of the day".