At the age of 21, she got married to a sales manager named Sidney Crocker Henry and from that time took his last name. While she died in 1997, her touching and exciting stories continue to be widely read.Īfter graduating from Milwaukee’s Riverside High School, she went to the Milwaukee State Teachers College and a few years later attended the University of Wisconsin. Since then, she has published more than fifty children’s novels to become one of the most popular animal story writers for children ever. She published her first novel “Misty of Chincoteague” in 1947 and this became the first of the “Misty” series of novels. She also worked at the local library where she repaired books. Marguerite was very much interested in writing and books and by the time she was eleven she had sold her first article to a magazine. Nonetheless, since she was brought up in the city, she never had much interaction with pets but still developed a fondness for animals that she writes about in her novels. Her father ran and owned a publishing business and hence she was grounded in aspects of writing and reading from very early on.

Henry was born in 1902 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as the youngest daughter of Anna and Louis Breithaupt. Marguerite Henry is a children’s author best known for her animal stories that for the most past are about horses. Gaudenzia, Pride of the Palio / The Palio / The Wildest Horse Race in the World

Sea Star by Marguerite Henry