Date of birth: 14 January 1886
Date of death: 26 September 1947
Website:

Hugh John Lofting was a British author, trained as a civil engineer, who created the character of Doctor Dolittle — one of the classics of children's literature. Hugh Lofting's doctor from Puddleby-on-the-Marsh who could speak to animals first saw light in the author's illustrated letters to children, written from the trenches during World War I when actual news, he later said, was either too horrible or too dull. ([Source][1])


[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Lofting

More Authors

Betty O'Rourke

Elizabeth Margaret Stevens was born on 1930 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK. She started to work in a library at 20, and met Mr. O'Rourke, her future husband at Library School. During her first two years of marriage they lived in USA. They had four children.

She has worked as both a bookseller...