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Nan Hayden Agle
Nan Hayden Agle (1905-2006) was an American author of children’s books. She was born Anna Bradford Hayden Agle in Baltimore, Maryland, to Charles Swett Hayden and Emily Spencer Hay...view moreNan Hayden Agle (1905-2006) was an American author of children’s books. She was born Anna Bradford Hayden Agle in Baltimore, Maryland, to Charles Swett Hayden and Emily Spencer Hayden. She grew up in Catonsville, Maryland, where her family lived in an old stone house built in 1732. Nan’s mother was an artist and said, “Our house was large and we had lots of company—artists, writers and dancers, because they could do as they pleased and there was always plenty to eat.” She was a granddaughter of the chief editorial writer for the Baltimore Sun, Edward Spencer. She married Harold H. Cecil in 1925 and married John Agle in 1947. She was educated at Goucher College and the Maryland Institute of Art. Nan, who had always liked to draw and write, then worked as an art teacher at Friends School of Baltimore and at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and was a member of Delta Gamma sorority. She and Ellen Wilson co-authored a series of children’s books known as the Three Boys series, about the adventures of the fictional triplet boys: Abercrombie, Benjamin and Christopher. The first book of the series, Three Boys and a Lighthouse, was completed in 1951. Its success led to more stores about adventures of the triplets, with an adventure in space at the end of the series. Nan died February 14, 2006 at the age of 100 in Sykesville, Maryland.
Aaron Sopher (1905-1972) was an American artist who is known for his depictions of Baltimore, United States. He attended Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts, now known as the Maryland Institute College of Art. His work appeared in prominent magazines and newspapers such as Harper’s Magazine, Johns Hopkins Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. His drawings and watercolors have been featured in numerous exhibitions, including at Maryland Institute College of Art, Carnegie Institute, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Library of Congress, and New York Public Library.view less