Margaret Olivia Ensor Coolidge (October 16, 1908"Coolidge, Olivia E."
Library of Congress Authorities (lccn.loc.gov), cites 1999

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data. − December 10, 2006) was a British-born American writer and educator. She published 27 books, many for young adults, including ''The Greek Myths'' (1949), her debut; ''The Trojan War'' (1952); ''Legends of the North'' (1951); ''Makers of the Red Revolution'' (1963); '' Men of Athens'', one runner-up for the 1963

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; ''Lives of Famous Romans'' (1965); and biographies of

Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier ...

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, and

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. Olivia Coolidge was born in London to Sir

Robert Ensor Sir Robert Charles Kirkwood Ensor (16 October 1877 – 4 December 1958) was a British writer, poet, journalist, liberal intellectual and historian. He is best known for ''England: 1870-1914'' (1936), a volume in the ''Oxford History of England'' ...

, a journalist and historian. She earned a degree in Classics and Philosophy at

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, in 1931 and a Master's degree in 1940. In Germany, England and the U.S. she taught Greek, Latin, and English. In 1946 she married Archibald C. Coolidge of

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, who had four children.

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* 1908 births 2006 deaths American children's writers Children's non-fiction writers British emigrants to the United States Newbery Honor winners Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford 20th-century American non-fiction writers {{US-child-writer-stub

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