13 Facts About Marguerite Henry

Marguerite Henry was an American writer of children's books, writing fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals.

Marguerite Henry won the Newbery Medal for King of the Wind, a 1948 book about horses, and she was a runner-up for two others.

Marguerite Henry was stricken with rheumatic fever at the age of six, which kept her bedridden until the age of twelve.

Marguerite Henry often wrote about animals, such as dogs, cats, birds, foxes, and mules, but chiefly her stories focused on horses.

On May 5,1923, Marguerite Henry married Sidney Marguerite Henry in Milwaukee.

The couple moved to the north side of Chicago where Marguerite Henry launched her writing career by writing for magazines.

In 1945, Marguerite Henry began a 20-year collaboration with artist Wesley Dennis.

Marguerite Henry died on November 26,1997, at home in Rancho Santa Fe, California, after multiple strokes.

Misty features the annual Pony Penning of feral horses from Assateague Island, a two-day round-up, swim, and auction that Marguerite Henry had been "sent to look at" by her hopeful editor, Mary Alice Jones.

Marguerite Henry created several Misty-related titles including two more children's novels illustrated by Dennis, Sea Star, Orphan of Chincoteague and Stormy, Misty's Foal.

Marguerite Henry won the annual Newbery Medal from the American Library Association in 1949, recognizing King of the Wind: the story of the Godolphin Arabian as the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".

Marguerite Henry had been a runner-up for Justin Morgan Had a Horse in 1946 and Misty of Chincoteague in 1948.

Marguerite Henry wrote the texts for the first and fourth sets.