Authors and Illustrators Database

Born: 01/24/1912  Northville
Died: 12/02/1997
Parents: Howard J. and Rhoda A. Corbett
Spouse: Roy Brent, an actor
Children: Jana Loi (Janczarek Paton)

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Film City				1988
	How to be a professional line artist : basic art and businessanswers on a career as a professional line artist in advertising and masscommunications /	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, N.Y. : Art Direction Book Co	1988
	Art as a Living	Non Fiction	Adult	New York : Art Direction Book Co	1984
	Some of My Best Friends Can Fly				1983
	Diary of a Hill Hugger				1982
	Some Doctors Make Me Sick				1980
	Dying for a Cigarette?				1976
	Daddy Danced the Charleston	Non Fiction	Adult	South Brunswick, A. S. Barnes	1970
	Other writings: - Contributor to numerous magazines, newspapers, illustrates many of her writings

What is the aim or goal of your writing: My goal is to entertain, inform, help people, keep alive our recent history of this century. I love to make people laugh too, as a medicine we could all find beneficial. 2nd ed. says, "I believe our art, in whatever form, and books should truthfully mirror life not only for us who identify with it, but clearly show future generations what those archaic oldtimers were up to way back in the 1970s. More than that--the entire 20th century. Writing and art have always been compulsive expressions of life as I lived and saw it. Several times I've unsuccessfully tried to stop them but became twitchy along with an empty feeling for which there's no known antidote except to get back into the throes. Perhaps some of the facts concerning 'Daddy Danced the Charleston' might be interesting. I began gathering the material as early as 1922 simply because I loved to cut pictures from magazines, some of which dated back to 1915. The idea to write and illustrate a large book incorporating the material collected for many years didn't come until the 1960s. It was a labor of love and tears for six years, and although I was by then a Californian, much of the credit for getting the show on the road is due The Detroit News, The Detroit Times & The Detroit Free Press as well as many other Michigan publications. I drew heavily on my storehouse of memories, happy and sad, of the life I had in Michigan after having lived not only in Northville, but Plymouth, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, Saline, Pontiac and finally Detroit. No matter where my pen is applied to paper, I'm very much a Michigan writer and artist!"

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