It's Murder She Says, Private Snafu cartoon directed by Chuck Jones, co-written by Dr. Leaf once commented, 'Early on in my writing career I realized that if one found some truths worth telling they should be told to the young in terms that were understandable to them.' He taught secondary school English at the Belmont Hill School in Boston in 1929 and then worked as an editor with the publisher Frederick A. He graduated from Harvard University with a master's degree in English literature in 1931.

Leaf studied at the University of Maryland where he had played lacrosse and served as class treasurer, graduating in 1927 He honeymooned with his wife Margaret Pope in Europe in 1928. where his father had established his career as a machinist at the Government Printing Office. By 1910 his family lived in Washington, D.C. Leaf had an older sister, Elizabeth W Leaf. Munroe Wilbur Leaf was born on December 4, 1905, the son of Charles W Leaf (1871-1965) and Emma India Leaf in Hamilton, Maryland. Labeled as subversive, it stirred an international controversy. He is best known for The Story of Ferdinand (1936), a children's classic which he wrote on a yellow legal-length pad in less than an hour. Munro Leaf) (Decem– December 21, 1976) was an American writer of children's literature who wrote and illustrated nearly 40 books during his 40-year career.

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