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Laura Numeroff
American author and illustrator
Laura Joffe Numeroff (born July 14, ) is an American author and illustrator of children's books who is best known as the author of .
Early life
Numeroff was born in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of three girls. By the age of nine, she had decided she wanted to be a writer when she grew up.[1] She credits her current profession to two childhood favorites, saying that they "are the reason" she is a writer: E.
B. White's Stuart Little and Kay Thompson's Eloise.
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Numeroff attended Pratt Institute, where she initially studied fashion. Realizing fashion "wasn't for her", she returned to her childhood dream of becoming a writer and took a course in illustrating and writing children's books.[1] A homework assignment prompted Numeroff to write and illustrate Amy for Short, about the tallest girl in third grade.
Before graduating from Pratt in , Amy For Short was published by Macmillan Publishing.