{"id":3038,"date":"2015-04-22T13:46:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T18:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2015-04-22T13:46:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T18:46:35","slug":"mahy-margaret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/mahy-margaret\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahy, Margaret"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3039 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ph_mahy.jpg\" alt=\"Margaret Mahy\" width=\"140\" height=\"189\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3040 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_alch.jpg\" alt=\"Alchemy\" width=\"120\" height=\"181\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3041 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_memry.jpg\" alt=\"Memory\" width=\"120\" height=\"181\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3042 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_five.jpg\" alt=\"Five Sisters\" width=\"120\" height=\"176\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Margaret Mahy was born in Whakatane, New Zealand on March 21, 1936. She began writing before she could write, creating poems that she memorized.<\/p>\n<p>She attended the Auckland University College, and worked as a school and public librarian in Christchurch until 1980, when she retired to focus full-time on writing.<\/p>\n<p>Her first book, <i>A Lion in the Meadow<\/i>, was published in 1969. She won the British Library Association&#8217;s Carnegie Medal twice, for <i>The Haunting<\/i> in 1982, and <i>The Changeover<\/i> in 1984 and the New Zealand Library Association&#8217;s Esther Glen Medal five times. In 1993, she received her country&#8217;s highest honor, the Order of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Mahy died on July 23, 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014 Vicki Palmquist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Mahy was born in Whakatane, New Zealand on March 21, 1936. She began writing before she could write, creating poems that she memorized. She attended the Auckland University College, and worked as a school and public librarian in Christchurch until 1980, when she retired to focus full-time on writing. 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