![]() ![]() at a party, and he later proposed to her. In 1952 Brown met James Stillman Rockefeller Jr. The relationship began as something of a mentoring one, but became a romantic relationship including co-habitating at 10 Gracie Street beginning in 1943. ![]() Starting in the summer of 1940, Brown was in a long-term relationship with Michael Strange, poet, playwright, and actress. In the early 1950s, she wrote several books for the Little Golden Books series including The Color Kittens, Mister Dog and Sailor Dog. In 1947, Brown wrote The Little Island under the pseudonym Golden MacDonald (illustrated by Leonard Weisgard), which won the Caldecott Medal. ![]() Her popular book The Little Fur Family, illustrated by Garth Williams, was published in 1946. Her first book was When the Wind Blew.īrown went on to develop her Here and Now stories, and later the Noisy Book series while employed as editor at William R. It was while working at the Bank Street Experimental School in New York City that she started writing books for children. After graduation at Dana Hall in 1928, Brown went on to Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia.įollowing graduation at Hollins College in 1932, Brown worked in teaching, and also studied art. She later attended Dana Hall School in 1926, where she did well in athletics. Brown was born in Pomfret, CT, and she attended boarding school in 1923 in Woodstock while her parents were in Canterbury. ![]()
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