Barbara Cooney

Barbara Cooney was an American writer and illustrator of 110 children's books, published over sixty years. She received two Caldecott Medals for her work on Chanticleer and the Fox (1958) and Ox-Cart Man (1979), and a National Book Award for Miss Rumphius (1982). Her books have been translated into 10 languages. ^{Barbara Cooney, American author and illustrator (d. 2000)}

6 August 1917

Born on the same birth date (6 August 1917): Robert Mitchum

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