{"name": "Marjorie Flack", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Marjorie Flack (22 October 1897 - August 29, 1958) was an American artist and writer of children's picture books. Flack was born in Greenport, Long Island, New York in 1897.[3] She was best known for The Story about Ping (1933), illustrated by Kurt Wiese, popularized by Captain Kangaroo,[1] and for her stories of an insatiably curious Scottish terrier named Angus, who was actually her dog. Her first marriage was to artist Karl Larsson; she later married poet William Rose Ben\u00e9t."}, "source_records": ["amazon:1595190872", "bwb:9780397314096", "bwb:9781503951082", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-10-17", "amazon:849145151X", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2024-05-08:P9-CSV-101"], "birth_date": "22 October 1897", "alternate_names": ["Marjorie Wiese Flack", "M. Flack"], "photos": [12614894], "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"isni": "0000000083694714", "viaf": "32119557", "wikidata": "Q15516333", "lc_naf": "n50004226", "goodreads": "110255"}, "personal_name": "Marjorie Flack", "death_date": "29 August 1958", "key": "/authors/OL371194A", "latest_revision": 14, "revision": 14, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-30T20:52:01.163964"}}