Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn (August 12, 1923 – June 11, 2024) was an American children's writer best known for My Father's Dragon and its two sequels—collectively sometimes called the My Father's Dragon or the Elmer and the Dragons series or trilogy.
Education
Gannett graduated from City and Country School in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the class of 1937. There, she recalled in 2012, "she benefited from being 'allowed and encouraged to write for fun' at certain times of the day".
Writing career
Gannett's first novel, My Father's Dragon, was published by Random House in 1948
Personal life
Ruth Gannett married artist, art history professor, She died on June 11, 2024, at the age of 100.
Works
;My Father's Dragon series
Sometimes called the "Elmer and the Dragons series", the three short novels were written by Ruth Stiles Gannett and illustrated by her stepmother Ruth Chrisman Gannett.</small>
;Other
- The Wonderful House-boat-train, illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg (Random, 1949), 63 pp.
- Katie and the Sad Noise, illus. Ellie Simmons (Random, 1961), 61 pp. <!--LC doesn't count the pages or name the illustrator-->
Gannett introduced the 1991 Yearling edition of Edith Nesbit's collection The Book of Dragons (), later issued in the Looking Glass Library (2013, ).
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