Zhenya Gay
Author,Illustrator
(1906 - 1978)
Author-illustrator Zhenya Gay is best known for her delightful illustrations of baby animals, the result of her lifetime fascination with animals and the discoveries surrounding her woodland home in the Catskill Mountain foothills.
She wrote and/or illustrated more than forty-five books, most of them children’s books with either animal or Latin American themes.
Bibliography
All the Days Were Antonia’s (1939)
Antonia’s father had gone to Deadwood to establish a pioneer bank when gold had been discovered in the hills. Based on the actual experiences of Florence Stebbins Gleeson who, as a little girl went with her mother to join her father in Deadwood.
Gretchen McKown