biography
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| lived:
| (1903–92)
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| biography:
| Children's novelist, born in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, SC England, UK. Educated in a convent school, she married and lived in Portugal after a brief career as an actress. She turned to writing as a means of support in the USA during World War 2. Her first books were The Magic Bedknob (1943), and Bonfires and Broomsticks (1947), re-issued in 1970 as Bedknobs and Broomsticks (filmed by Walt Disney Studios in 1971), but she is best known for the series of books beginning with The Borrowers (1952, Carnegie Medal), about a family of tiny people who live under the floorboards and ‘borrow’ objects from their human hosts. Commercially successful films of The Borrowers have been made both in Britain and the USA. |
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