Ruth Lercher Bornstein
Ruth Lercher Bornstein is an American author and illustrator of children's and young adult books, and painter. Biography. Ruth Lercher Bornstein grew up in Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1948 with a degree in Art Education, after which she taught art for children at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House in New York. She later attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan before moving with her husband to Los Angeles. Her first book "Indian Bunny", reissued as "Brave Bunny", was published in 1973.