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A lyricist whose decades-long partnership with composer Stephen Flaherty produced some of Broadway's more literate musicals, including Ragtime, Seussical, and Once on This Island. She won the Tony Award for Ragtime and earned two Academy Award nominations for her lyrics to the animated film Anastasia. Earlier in her career she was a mainstay writer and performer on ABC's Schoolhouse Rock!, putting educational lyrics into the heads of a generation of American children.