Ripley, Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Ripley was born on June 9, 1906 in New Haven, Connecticut. She graduated from Smith College in 1928 and went on to study theatrical design and drama at the Art Students League in New York from 1940 to 1942. She then lived in Europe and Asia for several years, working in various theater groups. She owned and managed her own greeting card company called Elizabeth Ripley Cards in New London, Connecticut from 1948 to 1956, and worked as a writer and illustrator for Workshop Cards Corporation from 1956 to 1962. She illustrated books of jokes, Lots of Laughs (1942) and Dopey Doings (1950), and limericks, Nothing but Nonsense (1943). She also wrote a series of biographies about famous artists, including Leonardo da Vinci: A Biography (1952), Rembrandt: A Biography (1955), and Rodin: A Biography (1967). These books served as an introduction to these painters and sculptors for adolescents. She died on June 21, 1969.

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Something About the Author, vol. 1.

From the guide to the Elizabeth Ripley papers, 1965-1968, (Free Library of Philadelphia: Children's Literature Research Collection)

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referencedIn Papers, 1836-1863. Houghton Library
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associatedWith Ripley, Christopher Gore, 1822-1881 person
associatedWith Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 person
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