Best known as the writer of the lyric for the popular Disney song Whos Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, as well as the American standard Willow Weep for Me, Ann Ronell was also a translator and orchestrator for operatic works. This biography traces Ronells life from her early days in Omaha, Nebraska and recounts her marriage to producer Lester Cowan and her friendships with George Gershwin, Kurt Weill and the baritone John Charles Thomas. Includes over forty pictures, a chronology, family tree, film credits, her senior dissertations, and a complete list of her works.