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464: 136:(28 November 1917 – 11 March 2015) was an American children's book editor. She was regarded as one of the notable and influential children's book editors of the 1960s. She was the daughter of 551: 254:
became a molecular biologist at Cambridge University. Deborah Hodgkin is a psychologist. Her husband won the Nobel Prize for Physiology in 1963.
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in 1944; they had met while he was working at the Rockefeller Institute in 1938. They had three daughters and one son.
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The Making of Modern Children's Literature in Britain: Publishing and Criticism in the 1960s and 1970s
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Born Marion Rous in New York City, she was the eldest of three daughters of the American pathologist
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Exploring the Nervous System: With Electronic Tools, an Institutional Base, a Network of Scientists
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She was a successful writer of children's literature in her own right, including
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Hodgkin's career as a children's book editor started in New York, working for
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Doctors and Discoveries: Lives that Created Today's Medicine
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In the Garden: Essays in Honor of Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Cambridge
Swarthmore College
Macmillan Publishers
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Francis Peyton Rous
Francis Peyton Rous
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Nobel Prize
Francis Peyton Rous
Dalton School
Swarthmore College
Viking Press
Rupert Hart-Davis
Macmillan Publishing Company
Lewis Carroll
Rudyard Kipling
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Graham Oakley
Roald Dahl
Trinity College, Cambridge
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Jonathan Hodgkin
Cambridge
The Making of Modern Children's Literature in Britain: Publishing and Criticism in the 1960s and 1970s
ISBN
978-1472406057
In the Garden: Essays in Honor of Frances Hodgson Burnett
ISBN
0810852888
"Peyton Rous"

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