Beppie Noyes

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Beatrice "Beppie" Noyes (born July 20, 1919- died July 3, 2007) was an American author and illustrator.

Born as Beatrice Spencer, she graduated from Vassar College with a degree in theater. After a short lived marriage to William Baldwin, she married war correspondent Newbold Noyes, Jr.. They settled in Potomac near Washington where she co-founded the Potomac Almanac, while her husband became the editor of the Washington Evening Star.

In 1978, she wrote her first book Mosby, the Kennedy Center Cat about the cat in the Kennedy Center featuring her own illustrations. Wigglesworth: The Caterpillar Who Wanted to Fly followed in 1985.

The Noyes settled in the Frenchman Bay area of Maine where Noyes wrote extensively for the Frenchman's Bay conservancy. These works were published as Beppie's Musings featuring many of her drawings. [1]Beppie died in Sorrento, Maine on July 3, 2007 at age 87.

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  1. ^ Washington Post "Beatrice Spencer Noyes, 87; Author" July 7, 2007]
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