Mary Norton

Kathleen Mary Pearson was born in 1903, the daughter of a physician, and grew up in a Georgian house at the end of the High Street in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, which is thought to have been the setting of The Borrowers. In 1926 she married Robert Charles Norton, and they had four children. She began working for the British War Office in 1940, and during the Second World War she moved with her family to the United States, where she began writing while working for the British Purchasing Commission in New York City. Her first book, The Magic Bed Knob (1944), was followed by Bonfires and Broomsticks; together they became the basis of the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). The Borrowers (1952) tells of the Clock family, tiny people who live under the floor of an old house and 'borrow' what they need from the humans above. It won the Carnegie Medal as the year's outstanding British children's book and was followed by four sequels, the last in 1982. In 1970 she married Lionel Bonsey. She died in Bideford in 1992.

Mary Norton is also an author in the library: author page and works.

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