Robbins, Ruth, 1965-

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Ruth Robbins was born in the late 1910s in Newark, NJ. She graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in 1939 and continued on at the School of Design in Chicago. Robbins professional career began with the US Public Health Service, where she worked as an art director for four years. In 1956, she founded the publishing company Parnassus Press. As the vice president and art director, by 1978 Robbins had published over fifteen pieces of work, including her Caldecott Medal-winning story, Baboushka and the Three Kings.Biographical source: Something About the Author. Volume 14, 1978.

From the description of Ruth Robbins Collection 1957-1964. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 428024664

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Birth 1965-12-10

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