Mary Norton (author)
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Mary Norton, née Spenser, (December 10, 1903 – August 29, 1992) was a British children's author. Her books include The Borrowers series.
Daughter of a physician, raised in a Georgian house at the end of the High Street in Leighton Buzzard. The house is now Leighton Middle School.
She married Robert Norton in 1927 and had four children, 2 boys and 2 girls. She began working for the War Office in 1940 before the family moved temporarily to the United States.
She started writing while working for the British Purchasing Commission in New York during the Second World War.
Her first book was The Magic Bed Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons published in 1943, which, together with the sequel Bonfires and Broomsticks, became the basis for the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
Mary Norton died of a stroke in Devon, England in 1992.
