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Tasha Tudor was born Starling Burgess on August 28th. She studied at the Boston Museum Fine Arts School and married Thomas McCready, Jr., in 1938, and had four children, two boys and two girls. She had her name legally changed to Tasha Tudor. Her father called her "Tasha" after the character Natasha in War and Peace, and her mother was Rosamond Tudor, a portrait painter.
The Burgesses were well-connected in Boston, and the young Tasha met Maxfield Parrish, John Singer Sargent and Mark, Twain. It would be justifiable to call her the Martha Stewart of a previous century. Tasha Tudor has lived in farmhouses in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont, most of them without electricity or running water. She has an intense interest in the domestic arts—the way they were done before mechanization. Her son built her a house thirty years ago that resembles an 1880's farmhouse and is unaccessible by car. For her business, Tasha Tudor and Family, she has created thousands of Christmas cards, Advent calendars, valentines, posters, and other works. Two of her books, Mother Goose (1945) and 1 is One (1957), were named Caldecott Honor books.
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