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Diana Farid
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Diana Farid MD, MPH is a staff physician and professor at Stanford University, a filmmaker, and a published poet. In addition to poetry, she writes picture books and is working on her first novel in verse. When You Breathe is her first book for Cameron Kids. You can learn more about her and her work by visiting dianafarid.com
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Charles M. Schulz
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Charles M. Schulz was born November 25, 1922 in Minneapolis. His destiny was foreshadowed when an uncle gave him, at the age of two days, the nickname Sparky (after the racehorse Spark Plug in the newspaper strip Barney Google) .In his senior year in high school, his mother noticed an ad in a local newspaper for a correspondence school, Federal Schools (later called Art Instruction Schools) . Schulz passed the talent test, completed the course and began trying, unsuccessfully, to sell gag cartoons to magazines. (His first published drawing was of his dog, Spike, and appeared in a 1937 Ripley's Believe It Or Not!...
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