Robert Mead Quackenbush is an American author and illustrator of children's books. As of 1999, he had authored 110 books and illustrated 60 more. He has written about many historical figures, such as Quick, Anne, Give Me a Catchy Line, a children's book about the life and works of Samuel F. B. Morse, and Mark Twain? What Kind of Name Is That? : a story of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, published in 1984. His most widely known book, Henry's Awful Mistake, published by Parents Magazine Press in 1980, is present in almost 900 US and Canadian libraries. Quackenbush was born in California and now lives in New York with his wife Margery, who is a director of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. 

July 23rd, 1929 in United States of America  /  Died:   May 17th, 2021