Ann McGovern

Ann McGovern Scheiner (née Weinberger; May 25, 1930 – August 8, 2015) was an American writer of more than 55 children's books, selling over 30 million copies. She may be best known for her adaptation of Stone Soup, as well as Too Much Noise, historical and travel non-fiction, and biographies of figures like Harriet Tubman and Deborah Sampson

Career

Artists for her books include Ezra Jack Keats, Simms Taback, Tomie de Paola and Mort Gerberg. She eventually moved into the Edna St. Vincent Millay house at 75½ Bedford Street, the narrowest house in New York, which inspired Mr Skinner's Skinny House . She married Martin Scheiner in 1970, the inventor of the first cardiac monitor for operating rooms, and adopted his three grown children. They lived together in the Usonia Historic District community in Westchester, New York.

She published four books of poetry in the 2000s, and began blogging about her cancer in 2014.

Death McGovern died of cancer in New York City on August 8, 2015, aged 85.

Selected works

Mr Skinner's Skinny House Aesop's Fables Little Whale Runaway Slave: The Story of Harriet Tubman Black is Beautiful Stone Soup Too Much Noise - 1967 Eggs on Your Nose Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest Christopher Columbus The Desert Beneath the Sea Shark Lady: True Adventures of Eugenie Clark The Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson - 1975 Night Dive - 1984 If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 - 1969 The Pilgrims' First Thanksgiving - 1973 Nicholas Bentley Stoningpot III - 1982 Treasury of Christmas Stories Edited By: Ann McGovern - 1960