Marguerite de Angeli

Marguerite Lofft was born in 1889 in Lapeer, Michigan, one of six children of a photographer and illustrator. In 1902 the family moved to West Philadelphia. At fifteen she began singing professionally as a contralto in a church choir, leaving high school for musical training. In 1910 she married John Dailey de Angeli, a violinist, and they had six children. While living in Collingswood, New Jersey, she began to study drawing in 1921, and she soon illustrated a Sunday School paper, magazines and books by other authors. Her first book of her own, Ted and Nina Go to the Grocery Store, appeared in 1935. Many of her books, illustrated with her own pictures, portray children of different communities in Pennsylvania, such as the Amish in Henner's Lydia and Yonie Wondernose. The Door in the Wall (1949), about a boy in medieval England who loses the use of his legs and learns patience and courage, won the Newbery Medal in 1950. She wrote and illustrated twenty-eight books. Her autobiography, Butter at the Old Price, appeared in 1971. She died in Philadelphia in 1987, aged 98.

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Faith: Faith not well documented; as a girl she sang in a Presbyterian church choir. Source: Wikipedia