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Date of Birth
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11-March-1893
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Place of Birth
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New Ulm
(Brown County, Minnesota, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Wanda Gag, Wanda GaÌg, Wanda Hazel Gág
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Profession
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Illustrator, Writer, Artist, Translator, Author
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Wanda Hazel Gág was an American artist, author, translator and illustrator. She is most noted for writing and illustrating the children's book Millions of Cats which won a Newbery Honor Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. It is the oldest American picture book still in print. The ABC Bunny also received a Newbery Honor Award. Her books Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Nothing at All each won a Caldecott Honor Award. In 1940 a book of edited excerpts from her diaries covering the years 1908 to 1917 was published as Growing Pains; it received wide acclaim.
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