Artist Info: Ann Ronell

Ann Ronell (December 28, 1906 or 1908, – December 25, 1993) was an American composer and lyricist best known for the jazz standard "Willow Weep for Me" (1932).

Ronell was born in Omaha, Nebraska, studied music with Walter Piston, and was married to producer Lester Cowan. The couple had no children.

Ronell was, along with Dorothy Fields, Dana Suesse, and Kay Swift, one of the first successful Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley female composers or librettists. [read more...]