Olivia Coolidge

Olivia Coolidge was born Margaret Olivia Ensor in London in 1908, the daughter of Sir Robert Ensor, a journalist and historian. She studied classics and philosophy at Somerville College, Oxford, earning a degree in 1931 and a master's degree in 1940. She taught Greek, Latin and English in Germany, England and the United States. In 1946 she married Archibald C. Coolidge of Connecticut, and she became stepmother to his four children. She published 27 books, many of them for young adults. Her first, The Greek Myths (1949), retold the ancient stories for modern readers, and it was followed by Legends of the North (1951), about Norse mythology, and The Trojan War (1952), a retelling of the Greek legends of the war. Her Men of Athens was a runner-up for the 1963 Newbery Medal. She also wrote Lives of Famous Romans, Makers of the Red Revolution, and biographies of figures including Winston Churchill, Gandhi, Edith Wharton, Eugene O'Neill and Tom Paine. She died in 2006.

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