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Lucy M. Boston
English children's writer (1892-1990) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 98
Lucy Maria Boston was an English novelist who wrote for children and adults, publishing her work entirely after the age of 60. She is best known for her Green Knowe series: six low fantasy children's novels published by Faber between 1954 and 1976.
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The setting is Green Knowe, an old country manor house based on Boston's Cambridgeshire home at Hemingford Grey. For the fourth book in the series, A Stranger at Green Knowe (1961), she won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.