![]() She become a child psychologist, teaching and practicing over the years at what is now Children’s National Medical Center, George Washington University, Howard University and the Washington School of Psychiatry. Her brother was David “Buzzy” Crompton who married Gigi Compton, nee Richter, and this is how Gigi owned a signed copy of the book.īelinda had some medical training at New York University in 1952. ![]() ![]() Tobey, a Republican senator from New Hampshire. After the death of her father, David Crompton (an English stockbroker living in New York), her mother, an American called Lillian nee Sheridan, married Charles W. She attended the private Perse School in Cambridge, England, before marrying in 1939. ![]() Her parents sent the drawings to Pantheon books, who published it.īelinda Booth Crompton was born in Port Chester, New York, on August 15, 1920. She illustrated a series of drawings for her grandmother when asked how the world was created. Born on in Washington, D.C she is the daughter of Michael Whitney Straight (1916–2004) and Belinda Booth Crompton (1920–2015). ![]() This post is really a voyage through an extraordinary family tree that started with the book.ĭorothy is one of the youngest authors ever published, written when she was four and published when she was six for years she was in the Guinness book of records for it. It came from the estate of Gigi Richter whos husband was brother to Dorothy’s mother. I bought a signed copy of How The World Began by Dorothy (Straight), 1964. ![]()
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