death_place death_date birth_place awards nationality notableworks birth_date genre article_title name occupation
london united kingdom 8 march 1984 walthamstow united kingdom eleanor farjeon award est. 1966 british '' the children who lived in a barn '' 9 january 1896 children 's literature eleanor graham
 eleanor graham writer , book editor
eleanor graham

eleanor graham -lrb- born 9 january 1896 in walthamstow , england ; died 8 march 1984 in london -rrb- was a book editor and children 's book author .
she worked for muriel paget 's aid mission in czechoslovakia before becoming an editor for publishers heinemann and methuen publishing and a reviewer of children 's books at `` the sunday times '' , among others .
during the second world war , she became editor of penguin 's children 's imprint puffin books .
after her retirement in 1961 , she received the eleanor farjeon award from the children 's book circle .
