Margery Williams

Margery Winifred Williams was born in London in 1881, the second daughter of Robert Williams, a barrister and classical scholar, who encouraged his daughters to read and use their imaginations. He died suddenly when she was seven, a loss that she later felt shaped all her writing. In 1890 the family moved to the United States, living in New York and then on a farm in Pennsylvania, and she attended a convent school in Sharon Hill. At nineteen she returned to London and submitted her first novel to a publisher; it appeared in 1902 but did not sell well. There she met Francesco Bianco, who managed a book department, and they married in 1904 and had a son, Cecco, and a daughter, Pamela, who became a celebrated child artist. After years in Paris and Italy, the family settled in New York. The Velveteen Rabbit (1922), about a toy rabbit who becomes real through the love of a boy, made her famous. Writing as Margery Williams Bianco, she won a Newbery Honor for Winterbound. She died in New York in 1944.

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