Margery williams bianco biography of william hill

American novelist

Margery Williams Bianco (22 July 1881 – 4 September 1944) was an English-American author, primarily of popular children's books.

A professional writer since the age of nineteen, she achieved lasting fame at forty-one with the 1922 publication of the classic that is her best-known work, The Velveteen Rabbit. She received the Newbery Honor for Winterbound.

Margery williams bianco biography of william hill

Early life and education

Margery Winifred Williams was born in London in 1881,^[2] the second daughter of a noted barrister and a renowned classical scholar, Robert Williams and Florence Williams née Harper.

She and her sister were encouraged by her father, whom she remembered as a deeply loving and caring parent, to read and use their imaginations.^[3] Writing about her childhood many years later, she recalled how vividly her father described characters from various books and the infinite world of knowledge and adventure that lay on the printed page.

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