Born as Beatrice Spencer, she graduated from Vassar College with a degree in theater. After a short marriage to William Baldwin, she married war correspondent Newbold Noyes, Jr. They settled in Potomac, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., where she co-founded the Potomac Almanac, while her husband became the editor of the Washington Evening Star.
In 1978, she wrote and illustrated her first book, Mosby, the Kennedy Center Cat, about the cat in the Kennedy Center. Wigglesworth: The Caterpillar Who Wanted to Fly followed in 1985.
The Noyes settled in the Frenchman Bay area of Maine, where Noyes wrote extensively for the Frenchman's Bay Conservancy. These works were published as Beppie's Musings, and featured many of her drawings.[1] She died in Sorrento, Maine, on July 3, 2007, aged 87.
