Hodges, Margaret
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Birthname | Sarah Margaret Moore | ||||
born on | 26 July 1911 at 08:10 (= 08:10 AM ) | ||||
Place | Indianapolis, Indiana, 39n46, 86w09 | ||||
Timezone | CST h6w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American writer of children's books, librarian, and storyteller on radio shows. Beginning in 1958 with One Little Drum, she wrote more than 40 published books, including Saint George and the Dragon (1984), The Kitchen Knight: A Tale from King Arthur (1990) and Comus (1996).
Hodges died of heart disease on 13 December 2005 at her home in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. She suffered from Parkinson's disease. She wrote her stories on a notepad or a typewriter. "I need good ideas, and they don't come out of machines," she once said.
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield provided birth certificate.
Categories
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Heart disease/attack
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Parkinson's
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 94)
- Vocation : Education : Librarian
- Vocation : Education : Teacher (Professor of library science)
- Vocation : Entertainment : Voice-Over (Storyteller)
- Vocation : Writers : Children's literature
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction
Categories:
- 1911 births
- Birthday 26 July
- Birthplace Indianapolis, IN (US)
- Sun 2 Leo
- Moon 12 Leo
- Asc 13 Virgo
- 2005 deaths
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Heart disease/attack
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Parkinson's
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
- Vocation : Education : Librarian
- Vocation : Education : Teacher
- Vocation : Entertainment : Voice-Over
- Vocation : Writers : Children's literature
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction