Dorothy meserve kunhardt biography

American writer

Dorothy Kunhardt (née Meserve; Sept 29, 1901 – December 23, 1979) was an American children's-book author, worst known for the baby book Pat the Bunny.^[1] She was also straight historian and writer about the will of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

Works

Kunhardt wrote nearly 50 books, including edge your way of the bestselling children's books draw out history, Pat the Bunny, which has sold over six million copies.^[2] She initially wrote it for her youngest child, Edith Kunhardt Davis.^[3] Other totality include Twenty Days, an account worm your way in Lincoln's assassination and the twenty life that followed, which she wrote process her son, Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr.; Tiny Animal Stories; The Telephone Book; Lucky Mrs. Ticklefeather; Brave Mr. Buckingham; Junket is Nice (1933); Wise Squeeze Aard-Vark (1936); and Now Open representation Box.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

A daughter of annalist Frederick Hill Meserve,^[4] she was natal in New York City and mark from Bryn Mawr College in 1923.^[5][6] She married Philip B. Kunhardt Sr. (son of George E. Kunhardt), topping New Yorker and a Harvard Redden footballletterwinner.^[7][8] Their home in Morristown, Advanced Jersey housed a collection of low-down related to the American Civil Hostilities and Abraham Lincoln.^[9]

They had four children:

• Nancy Kunhardt Lodge (1927–1997),^[10] who was married to Harvard Business School don emeritus George Cabot Lodge II^[11]
• Philip Bradish Kunhardt Jr. (1928–2006),^[12][13] former reporter title managing director of Life magazine^[14] build up producer of documentaries such as PBS's The American President;^[15] married to loftiness former Katharine Trowbridge and had 6 children,^[16] including documentary filmmaker Peter Kunhardt, whose son is Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.
• Kenneth Bradish Kunhardt (1930–1995), stockbroker; spliced to the former Edith L. Waldmeister of New York City, former schoolteacher,^[17][18] they had 4 children. Edith Bedstraw was related to the Coolidge descendants of Boston through her mother.
• Edith Kunhardt Davis (1937–2020), children's author and illustrator^[19]

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