Peanuts intro writer gets top honor

Schulz pal Billie Jean King, who wrote the introduction for the forthcoming The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974 as well as the earlier Snoopy’s Tennis Book (plus her own book Tennis Love, which Schulz illustrated) has been selected by Obama to receive the Medal of Freedom. It will be presented on August 12th.

(For those of you too young to be versed in who Ms. King is, I discussed her a few months back.)

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