Mary Norton

Born into a physician’s family in Leighton Buzzard, she spent her early years in a Georgian house that later inspired the setting of her most famous stories; after a stint at the British War Office she moved to New York, where work with the British Purchasing Commission sparked her writing career and led to the 1944 publication of The Magic Bed-Knob. Her Borrowers series, launched in 1952, earned… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources