One of my favorite authors is Marguerite Henry. I like her
works because they are educational and most are based on true stories. Also, I love horses. Her works include: Album of Horses, Black Gold, Born to
Trot, Brighty of the Grand Canyon, Brown Sunshine of Sawdust Valley, 5 o'
clock Charlie, Justin Morgan Had a Horse, and the Misty of Chincoteague
series.
Marguerite Henry was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on
April 12, 1902 to Anna and Louis Brithaupt. Marguerite was the
youngest of her five siblings. Mr. Brithaupt was a well
respected publisher. When she was six, she was diagnosed with rheumatic
fever. As her seventh Christmas present, her Father gave her a red table
and writing supplies. Until she was eleven which was when
she recovered from the rheumatic fever she spent a lot of her time writing
on her table. Her first published story was called "Hide-and-Seek in
Autumn Leaves". Later in Marguerite Henry's life she
said ,"At last I had a world of my very own -- a writing world, and
soon it would be populated by all the creatures of my imagination." Marguerite loved to read and got a job at the local library
mending books. Ever since a young age she had always wanted to be
a writer but deiced that it was not
a practical career. She Graduated the Milwaukee State Teachers
College and became an English teacher. During the summers Marguerite and
her sisters went on a trip to a fishing camp. There she met Sidney
Crocker Henry her future husband. Later, Marguerite
and Sidney got married on May 5, 1923.
During their sixty-four years that they were married, they
didn't have any children instead they had numerous pets. Marguerite wrote her
first children's book called Auno
and Tauno it was about her
friends stories about their native country,
Finland. When she had finished writing Justin Morgan Had a Horse, she wanted to get
it illustrated. She said,” I had just finished writing Justin Morgan Had a Horse, and
wanted the best horse artist in the world to illustrate it. So I went to the
library, studied the horse books, and immediately fell in love with the work of
Will James and Wesley Dennis. When I found out that Will James was dead, I sent
my manuscript to Wesley Dennis." In
1945 Justin Morgan Had a Horse was
published. Over all Wesley Dennis illustrated fifteen of
her books. Sadly, her husband died in 1987. Just after she published Brown
Sunshine of Sawdust Valley, she
passed away on November 26, 1997 at her home in Rancho Santa Fe, California.
Overall she had written fifty-eight books.
Helpful websites I used are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Henry
Thanks for reading
The picture of
Marguerite Henry with the horse is taken from this website.
http://horsesforliteracy.com/about/
The picture of Marguerite Henry is taken from this website.
http://www.yourlibrary.ws/childrens_webpage/j-author42001.html0
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