Zerna Sharp

Zerna Addas Sharp was an American educator and book editor who is best known as the creator of the Dick and Jane series of beginning readers for elementary school-aged children. Published by Scott, Foresman and Company of Chicago, Illinois, the readers, which described the activities of her fictional siblings, "Dick," "Jane," "Sally," and other characters, were widely used in schools in the United States and many other English-speaking countries for nearly forty years. The series, which included such titles as We Look and See, We Come and Go, We Work and Play, and Fun with Dick and Jane, among others, was marketed until 1973 and used the look-say method of teaching reading. ^{Zerna Sharp, American author and educator (d. 1981)}

12 August 1889

Born on the same birth day (12 August): Abraham Zacuto • August Darnell • Bryan Pata • Cecil B. DeMille • Jacinto Benavente • Javeed Alam • LaKeith Stanfield • Oliver Crawford • Pam Kilborn • Regilio Tuur • Ross McWhirter • Samuel Moutoussamy • Stuart Williams (cricketer) • Txiki Begiristain • Yusof Ishak

Born in the same month (August 1889): Alexander Mair • Camillien Houde • Charles Darrow • Conrad Aiken • George Kenney • Hans Egede Budtz • Jack Ryder (cricketer) • John Middleton Murry • Lalla Carlsen • Margaret Lawrence (actress) • Otto Tief • Walther Gerlach • Zofia Kossak-Szczucka