![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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 They asked for more and Margaret sent them one hundred - fifteen years of unpublished work.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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