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Shermund was born in San Francisco on 26 June 1899, to parents Henry and Frederica Shermund. Her father was an architect and draughtsman. Shermund studied at the California School of Fine Arts before moving to New York City at the age of 26. She worked as a cartoonist and a story illustrator and began working at the newly-found The New Yorker, where she would eventually contribute 597 drawings, including eight cover illustrations. Unlike many cartoonists, Shermund regularly wrote her own captions. She went on to work for Esquire and LIFE beginning in the 1940s. In 1949, Shermund was one of the first three women to be accepted into the National Cartoonists Society.
Shermund regularly exhibited her work in New York galleries, in the company of contemporaries such as James Thurber. A 1931 review referred to her a “modern Daumier.” Shermund died in September 1978.