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Marguerite Lofft was born in Lapeer, Michigan on March 14,
1889. In 1908 she met her future husband, John Daily de Angeli and married
him two years later. In 1922 she was hired to illustrate school papers for
Presbyterian and Baptist schools. Her success with illustrating led her to
try her own book. It would be thirteen years later, in 1935, that she
published her first book, Ted and Nina Go to the Grocery
Store. When
The Door in the Wall won a Newbery Medal in 1950, she was
overwhelmed "This honor was so far beyond my wildest dream that I could
hardly keep my feet on the ground." In 1971 she composed her
autobiography, Butter at the Old Price. In 1979, the Governer of
Michigan declared her 90th birthday to be Marguerite de Angeli Day. Two
years later, the public library was renamed Marguerite de Angeli Branch
Library. Marguerite de Angeli died on June 16, 1987 after a long and
illustrious career as a children's author and illustrator.
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