Up the hill marguerite de angeli biography
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De Angeli, Marguerite Lofft
Born 14 March 1889, Lapeer, Michigan; died June 1987
Daughter of S. C. and Ruby Tuttle Lofft; married John deAngeli, 1910
Marguerite Lofft de Angeli perfected her contralto voice and planned for a musical career, but her inclination to draw was stronger.
After 15 years of illustrating for magazines such as Country Gentleman and books such as Elizabeth Vining's Peggy MacIntosh, her editor, Helen Ferris, encouraged her to write the text of a book and illustrate it herself.
Up the hill marguerite de angeli biography
She created a series of short picture books for six-year-olds based on family situations, which were also the inspiration for later stories, but expanded into chapter-length episodes. De Angeli recreated her father's childhood in Lapeer, Michigan, in Copper-Toed Boots (1938).
Fiddlestrings (1974) is a fictionalized biography of her husband.
Jeffrey, de Angeli's six-year-old grandson, was the model for Just Like David (1951). Butter at the Old Price (1971) is her a