Quote by: Margaret Mahy

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.


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Author Bio


  • NameMargaret Mahy
  • DescriptionNew Zealand children's writer
  • BornMarch 21, 1936
  • DiedJuly 23, 2012
  • CountryNew Zealand
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Librarian
  • WorksThe Haunting; The Changeover
  • AwardsHans Christian Andersen Award