Rosemary Wells is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. She is well known for the Max and Ruby series, which follows the everyday adventures of sibling bunnies, curious three-year-old Max and bossy seven-year-old Ruby. Wells has also written Noisy Nora, Yoko, Voyage to the Bunny Planet series, a Christmas book called Morris's Disappearing Bag and a collected book of illustrations of Rodgers and Hammerstein songs. She has also published Red Moon at Sharpsburg, a historical novel featuring a young girl in the American Civil War. Otto Runs For President and Yoko Writes Her Name were published in 2008. 

January 29th, 1943 in New York City (Age 81)