Haris Petie was born June 26, 1915, in Boulder Creek, CA. She was an artist and illustrator of children's books, a fashion artist, advertising artist, and designer of children's clothes. Her illustrations appear in many nonfiction published for children in the 1960s and 1970s. She also wrote and illustrated 2 books, Billions of Bugsand The Seed the Squirrel Dropped.