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Rose O'Neill

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Profession
Illustrator
Died
Apr 6, 1944
Zodiac
Cancer
Born in
Pennsylvania
About
In the early 1900s, she created the popular Kewpies comic strip, which inspired America's highly successful Kewpie doll line and resulted in O'Neill being named the world's wealthiest female illustrator. Apart from her work as an artist, she published works of fiction and poetry and was involved in the early 20th-century women's suffrage movement.
Family
One of seven children born to William and Alice O'Neill, she spent her youth in Pennsylvania and Nebraska and later lived in New York and Missouri. After her marriage to Gray Latham ended in divorce, she married and later divorced novelist Harry Leon Wilson.

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