Marguerite Henry

Marguerite Henry was an American writer of children's books, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1902 and best known for her stories about horses. She wrote Misty of Chincoteague, which was the basis for several related titles and the 1961 film Misty, and King of the Wind, a book about the Godolphin Arabian that won the Newbery Medal. She worked with illustrator Wesley Dennis, who drew fifteen of her books, and she published more than forty before her death in 1997.