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American writer and illustrator (1905–1976)

Wilbur Monroe Leaf (a.k.a.Munro Leaf) (December 4, 1905 – December 21, 1976) was an American writer of children's literature who wrote and illustrated nearly 40 books during his 40-year career.

He is best known for The Story of Ferdinand (1936), a children's classic which he wrote on a yellow legal-length pad in less than an hour. Labeled as subversive, it stirred an international controversy.

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Early life

Munroe Wilbur Leaf was born on December 4, 1905, the son of Charles W Leaf (1871-1965) and Emma India Leaf in Hamilton, Maryland. Leaf had an older sister, Elizabeth W Leaf. By 1910 his family lived in Washington, D.C., where his father had established his career as a machinist at the Government Printing Office.^[1][2] Leaf studied at the University of Maryland where he had played lacrosse and served as class treasurer, graduating in 1927.^[3] He honeymooned with his wife Margaret Pope