1) Wanda Hazel Gag, born in New Ulm, Minnesota on March 11, 1893 to June 27, 1946 (aged 53), was an American artist, author, translator, and illustrator.
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2) While still a teenager her illustrated story Robby Bobby in Mother Goose Land was published in The Minneapolis Journal in their Junior Journal supplement.
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3) She attended The Saint Paul School of Art in 1913 and 1914. From 1914 to 1917 she attended The Minneapolis School of Art under the patronage of Herschel V. Jones.
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4) Her first illustrated book commission was A Child’s Book of Folklore Mechanics of Written English by Jean Rankin (1917). At the same year, she won a scholarship to the Art Students League of New York.
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5) Her work caught the attention of Ernestine Evans, the director of G.P. Putnam’s Sons. She developed ‘Millions of Cats,’ a story that Gag had written to entertain the children of friends.
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6) Her books were recipients of a Newbery Honor & a Caldecott Honor. She received the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1958), Kerlan Award (1977), & Society of Illustrators Original Art Lifetime Award (2018).
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