Dorothy Straight (1958)
Dorothy Elmhirst Straight is an American author who wrote How the World Began in 1962 at the age of 4 for her grandmother, Dorothy Payne Whitney, making her among the youngest published authors in…
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Rick Wamsley (1959)
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