Beatrice "Beppie" Noyes (July 20, 1919 – July 3, 2007) was an American

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and illustrator.

Biography

Born as Beatrice Spencer, she graduated from

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with a degree in

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. After a short lived marriage to William Baldwin, she married war correspondent

Newbold Noyes, Jr. Newbold Noyes Jr. (August 10, 1918 – December 18, 1997) was an American publisher, journalist and newspaper editor. Noyes went from war correspondent in the 1940s to editor in the 1960s. After graduating from Yale University in 1941, Noyes ...

They settled in Potomac near Washington where she co-founded the ''Potomac Almanac'', while her husband became the editor of the ''

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''. In 1978, she wrote her first book ''Mosby, the Kennedy Center Cat'' about the

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in the

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featuring her own illustrations. ''Wigglesworth: The Caterpillar Who Wanted to Fly'' followed in 1985. The Noyes settled in the

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area of

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where Noyes wrote extensively for the ''Frenchman's Bay Conservancy''. These works were published as ''Beppie's Musings'' featuring many of her drawings.''The Washington Post'', "Beatrice Spencer Noyes, 87; Author", July 7, 2007 She died in

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, on July 3, 2007, aged 87.

References

1919 births 2007 deaths American children's writers American women illustrators 20th-century American illustrators Noyes family Writers from Detroit People from Hancock County, Maine Vassar College alumni {{US-child-writer-stub