Marguerite de Angeli

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Marguerite de Angeli (March 14, 1889-June 16, 1987), the bestselling author of the 1950 Newbery Award winning book The Door in the Wall, was born in Lapeer, Michigan. She married John Dailey deAngeli in 1910 and their first of six children, John Shadrach, was born one year later. Her last child, Maurice Bower, was born 7 years before the 1935 publication of her first book, Ted and Nina Go to the Grocery Store. In 1971, two years after her huusband died, she published her autobiography, Butter at the Old Price, on which this article is based.