Enid blyton author biography for book
Authorised by one of Enid Blyton’s daughters, it’s written by Barbara Stoney. First written in the 1970s, less than a decade after Blyton's 1968 death, an updated edition was released in 2006. Stoney spent a huge amount of time researching the author, and had unprecedented access to letters and diaries, as well as interviewing people who knew or met Enid personally or professionally.
Enid Blyton was an incredibly prolific author who wrote far more than I realised. It was fascinating to read how she developed her craft, from writing poems as a teenager, to working as a teacher and writing newsletters for teachers and students, although she started out wanting to write for adults. It was through the newsletter and the poems and short stories for children that she progressed onto novels and other formats including magazines, comics, and plays.
Long before today’s commercially successful children’s authors and publishers, Enid Blyton also developed her own brand. It was amazing to discover how for years, starting in the 1920s, she received hundreds of letters from children each week, even before her novels were published. She also created children's clubs for her readers, and each club benefited a cause like children with disabilities or animal welfare.
Enid Blyton was however a complicated and complex woman whose life was surely impacted by a difficult childhood. Born in 1897, she left home to study and appears to have been mostly estranged from her family, living a very private and relatively isolated life. She had a compulsive, perhaps almost obsessive, desire to write, and a ‘card ind
Enid Blyton
Enid Mary Blyton (11 of August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an Englishwriter. She was born in Dulwich, South London, England. She was one of the world's most famouschildren's writers. She wrote a great number of books. Her most famous stories are the Famous Five stories, about a group of four children (Dick, Julian, Anne, and Georgina, who wanted to be called George) and their dog (Timmy) who have many adventures, and her Noddy books for small children.
Her parents wanted her to become a pianist, but Enid wanted to be a teacher. Her parents agreed to let her train as a teacher. She began teaching in 1919 in Kent, not far from where she grew up in Beckenham.
As a child and teenager her main interest had been writingpoems, stories and other items. She had sent many of them to magazines but had never had any published. As she worked as a teacher she began to publish her articles in a magazine called Teachers' World. Her first book, called Child Whispers came out in 1922. It was a book of her poems with illustrations (drawings).
She was married soon after. She left teaching and began to have more success with her books. She wrote in and was the editor of magazine for children called Sunny Stories. The magazine came out every two weeks. Some of Enid's most famous books were first printed in this magazine in parts.
Enid Blyton is in The Guinness Book of Records as one of the world's biggest selling writers. She is also included because she wrote more books than almost any other writer (about 700). Her books were published in many different languages. She said that she found writing them easy. Her books still sell in large numbers, and used to be owned by her family. A few years ago her family sold them, and now her works belong to a private company.
Enid Blyton did a lot of work for charity and had a club for children which helped them to give money to charity. She was married twice and had two daughters. She died of Alzheimer's disea English children's writer (1897–1968) Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer, whose books have been worldwide bestsellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Her books are still enormously popular and have been translated into ninety languages. As of June 2019, Blyton held the 4th place for the most translated author. She wrote on a wide range of topics, including education, natural history, fantasy, mystery, and biblical narratives. She is best remembered for her Noddy, Famous Five, Secret Seven, the Five Find-Outers, and Malory Towers books, although she also wrote many others, including; St. Clare's, The Naughtiest Girl, and The Faraway Tree series. Her first book, Child Whispers, a 24-page collection of poems, was published in 1922. Following the commercial success of her early novels, such as Adventures of the Wishing-Chair (1937) and The Enchanted Wood (1939), Blyton went on to build a literary empire, sometimes producing fifty books a year in addition to her prolific magazine and newspaper contributions. Her writing was unplanned and sprang largely from her unconscious mind; she typed her stories as events unfolded before her. The sheer volume of her work and the speed with which she produced it led to rumours that Blyton employed an army of ghost writers, a charge she vehemently denied. Blyton's work became increasingly controversial among literary critics, teachers, and parents beginning in the 1950s due to the alleged unchallenging nature of her writing and her themes, particularly in the Noddy series. Some libraries and schools banned her works, and from the 1930s until the 1950s, the BBC refused to broadcast her stories because of their perceived lack of literary merit. Her books have been criticised as elitist, sexist, racist, xenophobic, and at odds with the more progressive environment that was emerging in post-World War II Britain, but upd We all know that Enid Blyton wrote a lot of books, an awful awful lot of books. As well as being phenomenally popular she has been a controversial figure both during and after her career. So it’s perhaps not surprising that there have been a lot of books written about her. I have most of these books, though I haven’t read all the ones I have, and I have two more on order. The Story of My Life is Blyton’s only autobiography. I would have loved for her to have written one for grown-ups, but most of her attempts at writing for adults had ended in failure. So instead, we have this short book, full of photos, aimed at her child readers. It’s a lovely book but it glosses over a great deal of what makes Blyton’s life interesting. For example it makes no mention of her first husband, Major Hugh Alexander Pollock. Instead it features her second husband, the surgeon Kenneth Darrell Waters, along with her two daughters, Gillian and Imogen, as a happy little family. It makes out that there has only been one husband, and that he is the girls’ father, a pretence that I believe she kept up in real life too. Likewise it doesn’t mention her parents’ divorce or her estrangement from her mother, instead focussing on the books she read as a child and how her father taught her about nature. There have been many more biographies than there have been biographies, from a number of different writers. The ones in this section focus primarily on Blyton’s life but as it’s nearly impossible to do that without mentioning her writing they do all feature various elements of her career. This is generally considered to be the definitive biography of Enid Blyton, and the one which most later biographies refer to. After her mothers’ death many people reached out to Gillian Baverstock, w
Enid Blyton
The autobiography
The Story of My Life published by Pitkin, 1952.
The biographies of Blyton’s life
Enid Blyton by Barbara Stoney