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1925-07-21

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2001-08-21

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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Kent, Connecticut, USA

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Robert Kraus was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where his first drawing appeared in the Milwaukee Journal when he was eleven years old. His cartoons appeared regularly in the New Yorker magazine until about five years ago when he started his own publishing company, Windmill Books. Mr. Kraus is the author-illustrator of forty children's books. Mr. Kraus lives in Connecticut with his wife and two sons. [adapted from Leo the Late Bloomer (1971)]

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