Her next stop was a girls camp, Camp Walden in Maine, where she discovered her love for writing the camp yearbook for 1919 contains her first published piece of writing. The school's focus on applied arts did not suit her and she left after about a year. She enrolled in the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts (now known as the Maryland Institute College of Art). Ruth went to a local high school but left in 1917 after her sophomore year to focus on the study of art. She began writing and illustrating her own stories while still a child, hand sewing her pages into books. As a child, Ruth had numerous health problems, including the rare autoimmune disorder pemphigus. Ruth Krauss was born July 25, 1901, in Baltimore, Maryland to Julius Leopold and Blanche Krauss. Ruth Ida Krauss (J– July 10, 1993) was an American writer of children's books, including The Carrot Seed, and of theatrical poems for adult readers.
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