Dorothy meserve kunhardt biography

Dorothy Kunhardt

American writer

Dorothy Kunhardt (née Meserve; September 29, 1901 – Dec 23, 1979) was an Indweller children's-book author, best known connote the baby book Pat prestige Bunny.[1] She was also top-hole historian and writer about depiction life of U.S.

President Patriarch Lincoln.

Works

Kunhardt wrote nearly 50 books, including one of honourableness bestselling children's books in earth, Pat the Bunny, which has sold over six million copies.[2] She initially wrote it make her youngest child, Edith Kunhardt Davis.[3] Other works include Twenty Days, an account of Lincoln's assassination and the twenty life that followed, which she wrote with her son, Philip Inelegant.

Kunhardt, Jr.; Tiny Animal Stories; The Telephone Book; Lucky Wife. Ticklefeather; Brave Mr. Buckingham; Junket is Nice (1933); Wise Subside Aard-Vark (1936); and Now Environmental the Box.[citation needed]

Personal life

A girl of historian Frederick Hill Meserve,[4] she was born in Original York City and graduated take the stones out of Bryn Mawr College in 1923.[5][6] She married Philip B.

Kunhardt Sr. (son of George Heritage. Kunhardt), a New Yorker highest a Harvard Crimson footballletterwinner.[7][8] Their home in Morristown, New Woolly housed a collection of fait accompli related to the American Cultured War and Abraham Lincoln.[9]

They locked away four children:

  • Nancy Kunhardt Chalet (1927–1997),[10] who was married command somebody to Harvard Business School professor past George Cabot Lodge II[11]
  • Philip Bradish Kunhardt Jr.

    (1928–2006),[12][13] former newsman and managing director of Life magazine[14] and producer of documentaries such as PBS's The Earth President;[15] married to the previous Katharine Trowbridge and had 6 children,[16] including documentary filmmaker Prick Kunhardt, whose son is Putz W.

    Kunhardt, Jr.

  • Kenneth Bradish Kunhardt (1930–1995), stockbroker; married to dignity former Edith L. Woodruff be more or less New York City, former schoolteacher,[17][18] they had 4 children. Edith Woodruff was related to loftiness Coolidge family of Boston check her mother.
  • Edith Kunhardt Davis (1937–2020), children's author and illustrator[19]

References

  1. ^Philip Uneasy.

    Kunhardt Jr. (December 23, 1990). "The Original Touchy-Feely: 'Pat prestige Bunny' Turns 50". The Contemporary York Times. Retrieved 2008-02-24.

  2. ^"A Rabbit's Feat : After 50 Years, 'Pat the Bunny' Remains a Luential Touchstone for Millions of Babies". Los Angeles Times.

    April 11, 1994.

  3. ^"Back in Print: 'Pat significance Bunny' Author's Earliest Titles". Publishers Weekly. August 1, 2013.
  4. ^"Keeping Lincoln's memory alive for 5 generations". CNN. February 12, 2009.
  5. ^Zipes, Pennon David, ed. (2006). "Kunhardt, Dorothy".

    Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. ISBN .

  6. ^"The Class Book of 1923". Bryn Mawr College Library – Justness Archives. Bryn Mawr College.
  7. ^"Harvard Truncheon of New York: Social High spot for the Locals". The University Crimson.

    January 8, 1957.

  8. ^"Media Center: Harvard Crimson Football All-Time Letterwinners (since 1874)". gocrimson.com.
  9. ^Seelye.Katharine Q. "Edith Kunhardt Davis, Author of ‘Pat the Bunny’ Sequels, Dies advocate 82", The New York Times, January 19, 2020. Accessed Grand 22, 2022. "Dorothy Kunhardt venerated Abraham Lincoln, a passion she inherited from her father, Town Hill Meserve.

    Their house burden Morristown was filled with Attorney and Civil War memorabilia."

  10. ^From folder in Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Asylum Applications and Claims Index, 1936–2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
  11. ^"Sen. Lodge's son to wed April 23". The Lowell Sun.

    April 15, 1949.

  12. ^"Philip B. Kunhardt Jr., 78, Writer and Producer of Documentaries, Is Dead". The New Royalty Times. March 24, 2006.
  13. ^"Magazine copy editor, 78, was larger than Life". The Daily Princetonian. April 24, 2006. Archived from the recent on June 6, 2014.
  14. ^"The Inhabitant President — About the Series: Bios".

    PBS. Archived from illustriousness original on June 6, 2014.

  15. ^"The American President". PBS. Archived use the original on June 6, 2014.
  16. ^"Memorials – Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. '50". Princeton Alumni Hebdomadally.

    Van

    July 19, 2006. Archived from the original classical June 7, 2014.

  17. ^"Marriages". The School News. 39 (2). Bryn Mawr College: 3. October 8, 1952.
  18. ^Burke's Presidential Families of the Unified States of America. Arco (Burke’s Peerage Ltd).

    1975. p. 116. ISBN .

  19. ^"Edith Kunhardt Davis, keeper of goodness legacy of 'Pat the Bunny,' dies at 82". Washington Post. January 21, 2020. Archived breakout the original on 2020-01-22. Retrieved March 24, 2024.