biography
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Lofting, Hugh (John)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1886–1947)
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| biography:
| Children's novelist, born in Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead, S England, UK. He trained as a civil engineer, worked in Africa, the West Indies, and Canada, then settled in New York City to become a writer. He created the immensely successful Dr Dolittle books from letters he wrote to his children from the front lines in World War 1. Beginning with The Story of Dr Dolittle (1920), there were a dozen Dolittle books, which he also illustrated, and although he tired of his hero - on one occasion attempting to abandon him on the Moon - his popularity was such that his readers demanded his return. |
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