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Genevieve Foster
Genevieve Stump Foster (13 April 1893 – 30 August 1979) was an American writer and illustrator of history for young readers. Born in Oswego, New York and raised largely in Wisconsin, she studied at Rockford College, the University of Wisconsin and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. She is known for the "horizontal histories" — George Washington's World, Abraham Lincoln's World, The World of Columbus and Sons — which set a famous life beside everything else happening across the world at the same t...