Did you know . . .

• . . . that Marguerite Lofft deAngeli was born on March 14, 1889, in Lapeer, Michigan?
• . . . that she moved to Philadelphia with her family when she was a teenager.
• . . .she wanted to become a singer until she met John deAngeli and married him in 1910?
• . . .they had five children--John, Arthur, H. Edward, Nina, and Maurice?
• . . .that because of her interest in immigrant and ethnic Americans, she wrote books about children from many cultures who settled in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States?
• . . .the deAngeli's lived in Toms River, New Jersey?
• . . .that she died in 1987 at the age of 98?
• . . .she also wrote Henner's Lydia, Up the Hill, Thee Hannah, Jared's Island, Black Fox of Lorne, Copper-toed Boots, Just Like David, The Old Testament, Petite Suzanne, A Pocket Full of Posies, Skippack School and Yonie Wondernose?
• another title, Bright April, was one of the first books to deal with racial prejudice?
• . . .The Door in the Wall is her best known story having won the John Newbery Award. It is set in medieval England during the time of the plague and when England and Wales were at war.
• . . .her autobiography is called Buttermilk at Any Price?

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