Catherine Storr

Catherine Storr ( born July 21, 1913 in London, † January 6, 2001 ibid ) was an English children's book author.

Life

She studied English Literature at Newnham College, Cambridge and later medicine and psychiatry. She practiced 15 years as a psychiatrist in London hospitals in the 1950s and early 1960s before she was editor at Penguin Books. During this time she began to develop their own stories. From their published more than thirty books for children and several novels for adults.

My most famous work, " Marianne Dreams" is about the dreams of a little girl who is tied up for 2 months in bed. The novel was repeatedly processed for film, radio and television. In 1972 it appeared as a television series of the British channel ITV under the title Escape Into Night and in 1988 as a film under the title Paper House.

Storr was married in first marriage with the writer and psychiatrist Anthony Storr with whom she had three children. In 1970 she married the Hungarian economist Thomas Balogh.

Works (selection)

• Marianne Dreams, 2002, Bertelsmann, ISBN 3-570-21023-5, (originally published in English 1958).
• Lucy discovered something, 1969, Engelbert -Verlag.
• Lucy, the little savior, 1979, The Blue Giraffe, ISBN 3-536-00874-7.
• The boy and the Swan, 1989, Ravensburger Verlag, ISBN 3-473-34385-4.
• King Midas, 1993, Heinemann Library, ISBN 0-811-47148-9.