Beatrice "Beppie" Noyes (July 20, 1919 – July 3, 2007) was an American author and illustrator.

Biography

Born as Beatrice Spencer, she graduated from Vassar College with a degree in theater. After a short lived marriage to William Baldwin, she married war correspondent

Newbold Noyes, Jr. Newbold Noyes Jr. (August 10, 1918 – December 18, 1997) was an American publisher, journalist and newspaper editor. Noyes went from war correspondent in the 1940s to editor in the 1960s. After graduating from Yale University in 1941, Noyes ...

They settled in Potomac near Washington where she co-founded the ''Potomac Almanac'', while her husband became the editor of the '' Washington Evening Star''. In 1978, she wrote her first book ''Mosby, the Kennedy Center Cat'' about the cat in the Kennedy Center featuring her own illustrations. ''Wigglesworth: The Caterpillar Who Wanted to Fly'' followed in 1985. The Noyes settled in the

Frenchman Bay Frenchman Bay is a bay in Hancock County, Maine, named for Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer who visited the area in 1604. Frenchman Bay may have been the location of the Jesuit St. Sauveur mission, established in 1613. In a 1960 book ...

area of Maine where Noyes wrote extensively for the ''Frenchman's Bay Conservancy''. These works were published as ''Beppie's Musings'' featuring many of her drawings. ''The Washington Post'', "Beatrice Spencer Noyes, 87; Author", July 7, 2007 She died in

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, on July 3, 2007, aged 87.

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1919 births 2007 deaths American children's writers American women illustrators American illustrators Noyes family Writers from Detroit People from Hancock County, Maine Vassar College alumni {{US-child-writer-stub