Doris "Doe" Burn (born Doris Wernstedt; April 24, 1923 – March 9, 2011) was an American children's book author and illustrator. She lived most of her life on Waldron Island in the San Juan Islands archipelago of Washington.
Life and career
Doris Wernstedt was born in Portland, Oregon, to Lage Wernstedt, an explorer, mountaineer and United States Forest Service worker, and his wife, Adele. The family resided on Guemes Island near Anacortes. After being interviewed by writer June Burn for the Bellingham Herald, the Wernstedt and Burn families became friends; the two families had nearby summer cabins on Waldron, a small island without ferry service. Waldron Island was without electricity, telephone service, running water or merchants. All of her goods and supplies were brought by boat from the mainland. In 1956, Burn took a portfolio of illustrations to publishers in New York and was encouraged to continue working. Her children remember her working late nights by lantern-light with the fireplace burning down to embers. She went on to write The Summerfolk and The Tale of Lazy Lizard Canyon, and illustrated eight others.
Death
Doris "Doe" Burn died at her daughter's home in Bellingham, Washington on March 9, 2011, at the age of 87. The collection is made available by Western Libraries Heritage Resources.
Works
right|thumb|175px|Cover of Burn's 1965 classic "Andrew Henry's Meadow"
Author and illustrator
- Fortieth Anniversary Edition. (2005) Woodinville, WA: San Juan Publishing.
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Illustrator
- Joseph Jacobs. Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary. New York: Coward-McCann. 1968
- Robert Nathan. Tappy. Knopf. 1968
- Liesel Moak Skorpen. We Were Tired of Living in a House. New York: Coward-McCann. 1969
- Patricia Lee Gauch. My Old Tree. New York: Coward-McCann. 1970
- Patricia Lee Gauch. Christina Katerina & the Box. New York: Putnam & Grosset. 1971
- Oscar Brand, When I Came First to this Land. New York: G. B. Putnam's. 1974
Film
Actor Zach Braff has been adapting Andrew Henry's Meadow into a film for Twentieth Century Fox since 2004. Barry Sonnenfeld signed on to direct the film in early 2010.