Peggy Rathmann, author of the beloved children’s book Good Night, Gorilla, has passed away.
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Penguin Random House announced the Nov. 3 death of the 73-year-old children’s author earlier this week. The publisher didn’t reveal the cause of Rathman’s passing.
A St. Paul, Minnesota, native, she began her journey as a children’s author while studying commercial art at the American Academy in Chicago. Later in the 1980s, Rathmann took fine art courses at Atelier Lack in Minneapolis.
However, Rathman’s path to becoming a children’s author wasn’t a straight one…