Marguerite Henry

Marguerite Henry is a children’s author best known for her animal stories that for the most past are about horses. Henry was born in 1902 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as the youngest daughter of Anna and Louis Breithaupt. Her father ran and owned a publishing business and hence she was grounded in aspects of writing and reading from very early on. Nonetheless, since she was brought up in the city, she never had much interaction with pets but still developed a fondness for animals that she writes about in her novels. Marguerite was very much interested in writing and books and by the time she was eleven she had sold her first article to a magazine. She also worked at the local library where she repaired books. She published her first novel “Misty of Chincoteague” in 1947 and this became the first of the “Misty” series of novels. Since then, she has published more than fifty children’s novels to become one of the most popular animal story writers for children ever. While she died in 1997, her touching and exciting stories continue to be widely read.