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Hugh Lofting

14 January 1886 – 26 September 1947

150 works in the book catalog catalog

Biography

Hugh John Lofting was a British author, trained as a civil engineer, who created the character of Doctor Dolittle — one of the classics of children's literature. Hugh Lofting's doctor from Puddleby-on-the-Marsh who could speak to animals first saw light in the author's illustrated letters to children, written from the trenches during World War I when actual news, he later said, was either too horrible or too dull. (Source)

Also published as: Hugh LOFTING, HUGH LOFTING, HUGH LOFTING (ILLUSTRATOR), H. Lofting, Hugh Lofting and Bobbie Frohman, Hugh Lofting; Nadia May

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