Kirn, Ann

Ann Kirn is a well known author-illustrator of books for children who also taught in the Fine Arts Department at FSU from 1944-1977. She grew up in Montgomery City, Missouri, and studied art at William Woods College, the University of Missouri, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, and the University of California at Los Angeles and spent a summer painting in Taxco, Mexico. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University. Before becoming a professor of art at FSU, she worked as a fashion illustrator and taught second grade. She has also illustrated and written other books such as Two Pesos for Catalina, Leopard on a String, Nine in a Line, I Spy, Tale of a Crocodile and Beeswax Catches a Thief.