Barbara Norman Makanowitzky
American,
d. 2011
Barbara Norman Makanowitzky was a cookbook author and illustrator. A graduate of Stanford University, she worked for the U.S. State Department, living in Washington, DC, Munich and Paris. Fluent in Russian, French, Spanish and Catalan, she translated several Russian classics of Tolstoy, Turgenev and Chekhov for publication. In her later years, she became a featured artist of the Pastel Journal producing dramatic depictions of sea, foam and clouds.