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Mickey Mouse was in her house (now in her book about Disney Imagineering)

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Her name is Leslie Iwerks.

Her dad and her grandfather both worked directly with Walt Disney.

WGNO Good Morning New Orleans features reporter Bill Wood says the book she wrote about her life is a real page-turner.

It’s called “The Imagineering Story: The Official Biography of Walt Disney Imagineering.”

Iwerks was signing her book at the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University.

Her grandfather and Walt Disney were teenage friends.

When Disney needed a co-creator to create Mickey Mouse, he called on his friend, her granddad, Ub Iwerks.

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