Overview Jennifer Owings Dewey is a nationally known author and illustrator of books for children and adults. Dewey is the daughter of architect Nathaniel Owings, a founding partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Emily Otis Owings Barnes, the daughter of a director of the Santa Fe Railroad in Chicago. As a young child, Dewey went to visit O'Keeffe with her mother and sisters and encountered the artist at numerous social occasions in Santa Fe. Dewey recounts the friendships between her mother...