Hugh Lofting
1886
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1947
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: children's literature
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
native language: English
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Westminster, Mount St Mary's College
occupation: writer, novelist, children's writer, screenwriter, illustrator, civil engineer
award received: Newbery Medal, Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
official website: puddleby.tripod.com
Hugh John Lofting (14 January 1886 – 26 September 1947) was an English American writer trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character Doctor Dolittle. The fictional physician to talking animals, based in an English village, first appeared in illustrated letters to his children which Lofting sent from British Army trenches in the First World War. Lofting settled in the United States soon after the war and before his first book was published. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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