Ann Turner Cook

Ann Turner Cook (born Ann Leslie Turner; November 20, 1926 – June 3, 2022) was an American educator and mystery novelist who was best known as the model for the familiar Gerber Baby artwork, seen on baby food packages of the Gerber Products Company.

[1] Born in Westport, Connecticut, she was the daughter of Bethel (Burson) and syndicated cartoonist Leslie Turner, who drew the comic strip Captain Easy for decades.

[2][3] The family's neighbor was the artist Dorothy Hope Smith, who did a charcoal drawing of Ann when she was a baby.

[4][5] The drawing of Ann Turner Cook has since been used on virtually all Gerber baby food packaging.

[12] The latter title received a negative review from Publishers Weekly, which stated the book had “An overly busy plot ... [and] is weighed down with limp prose and repetition.”[13] She was married to James Cook, a criminologist with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, until his death in 2004.