Enid Blyton

Enid Mary Blyton (August 11, 1897 – November 28, 1968) was a British children's author. She is noted particularly for numerous series of books, based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups.

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August 11 - 1897 - November 28 - 1968 - British - Children's author

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Her prolific output involves mainly escapist children's fantasy, which sometimes involves the supernatural. Her books were immensely popular in Britain and Australia and have remained popular. They were translated into 40 languages, including Spanish, French, Finnish, German, Japanese and Hebrew. Translated versions became and have remained extremely popular in many parts of Europe and Asia.

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Escapist - Australia - Spanish - French - Finnish - German - Japanese - Hebrew

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Best known of her works are:

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• the Noddy books
• The Famous Five
• The Five Find-Outers
• The Mystery Series
• The Adventure Series
• The Secret Seven
• Malory Towers
• The St. Clare's series
• The Naughtiest Girl series
• The Magic Faraway Tree series
• The Wishing-Chair series
• The Circus Series

She wrote hundreds of other books for young and older children—an estimate puts her total book publication at around 600 titles, not including decades of magazine writing. It is said at one point she produced 10,000 words a day. Such astonishingly prolific output led many to believe that some of her work was ghost written, but such ghost writers have not emerged.

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In her last few years of life she suffered from Alzheimer's Disease, and her work rate rapidly declined almost to nothing.

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