Biography of Marguerite Henry

Marguerite Henry

  Marguerite Henry was the famous author of Misty of Chincoteague and 59 other books. She was born to Louis and Anna Breithaupt, the youngest of five other children. Ms. Henry lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and at the age of six she was struck with rheumatic fever which had her in bed until the age of twelve. Because of her illness she couldn’t go to school and was confined to the indoors where she discovered she liked to read. Because of her love to read and her love of animals she decided to write. Her parents surprised her with a writing desk for Christmas and Marguerite Henry replied, ‘’At last I had a world of my very own—a writing world, and soon it would be populated by all the creatures of my imagination.’’

She sold her first book at the age of 11 and she often wrote about animal such as, cats, dogs, birds, foxes, mules, and mostly horses.

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Duck wrote this for school... a just because writing assignment... Nov 9, 2011