![]() ![]() They were taken and she really was A Writer. They asked for more and Margaret sent them one hundred - fifteen years of unpublished work. In 1968, an American publisher spotted one of her stories published in a journal issued to New Zealand schools. ![]() She brought up her two daughters alone, which at the time meant life was often tough. She studied philosophy at university in Auckland and Christchurch, and then qualified as a librarian, specialising in children's reading. She was a solitary little tomboy, living in her own world and talking out loud to herself. Margaret Mahy was born in New Zealand in 1936, the eldest of five children, with a huge extended family in the surrounding neighbourhood, and from the beginning her vivid imagination and love of storytelling sometimes confused reality and fantasy. ![]()
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