Marguerite henry small biography author
Marguerite Henry was born in 1902 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the youngest of five children. Her father was a publisher. On Saturdays, Marguerite enjoyed going to her father's publishing house, where there were rows of loud presses printing pages. On Christmas Day when she was seven years old, Marguerite's father gave her a little red table with a small pitcher holding pencils, scissors, paste, a hole punch, paper clips, a pencil sharpener and stacks of colored paper. This gift helped her become a writer. | |
| The next year, Marguerite had a serious illness. She had to stay indoors, and couldn't go to school. So she read lots of books and wrote at her red table in the kitchen. | |
| When Marguerite was 11 years old, her mother told Marguerite that a magazine was looking for articles from children about the four seasons. Marguerite wrote "Hide-and-Seek in Autumn Leaves," and the magazine published her article. The magazine paid her $12. | |
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