Hugh Lofting
Hugh John Lofting (born 14 January 1886 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England; † September 26, 1947 in Topanga, California, USA ) was an English writer, who with his stories about Doctor Dolittle who speaks the languages of the animals, the classic literature authored.
Life
Lofting was one of six children of his father John Brien Lofting and its coming from Ireland Mother Elizabeth Agnes Gannon. After attending the Jesuit school Mount St. Mary's in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, studied Lofting in the United States at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in England at the London Polytechnic. He wanted to be a civil engineer and get around in the world. After working briefly as an architect, he was 1908/1909 in Canada as a surveyor on the road and from 1910 to 1912 in the West African Lagos on the railroad. After that, he also worked for the railroad in Havana, Cuba. 1912 Lofting returned back to the U.S., married Flora Small and moved to New York where he began his career as a writer. His short stories have been published in various magazines, but had no children stories to content and also showed no drawings made by him. 1913 his daughter Mary Elizabeth, and in 1915 his son Colin MacMahon was born. In 1914 the First World War broke out, lofting worked as a British citizen for the British Ministry of Information, and a year later was drafted as a lieutenant to the Irish Guards, with whom he fought in Flanders 1917/1918. Here he began to write his first "Doctor Dolittle " stories.
After being seriously wounded by grenade splinters Lofting was prematurely being invalided out of the army and he returned in 1919 with his family back to New York. After moving to Connecticut Lofting wrote a new book about Doctor Dolittle and other stories almost every year. Died in 1927, his wife Flora and 1928 he married Katherine Harrower Peters, but already in the same year died after a serious illness. 1928 "Doctor Dolittle " series should really go with "Doctor Dolittle in the Moon " to the end, but as with his fellow writer Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes, also lofting was urged by fans to write more stories.
1935 married Josephine Lofting Fricker, a Canadian with German origin. Their son, Christopher Clement was born in 1936.
Doctor Dolittle
The first stories about Doctor John Dolittle, who lives in the fictional English village of Puddleby -on-the -Marsh at the time of Queen Victoria, and learned the language of animals, Lofting wrote as illustrated letters from the trenches in Flanders of the First World War to his children.
1920 appeared the first book entitled "The Story of Doctor Dolittle " ( Doctor Dolittle ). For the sequel, " The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle " Lofting received in 1922 the prestigious Children's Book Award Newbery Medal. Ten more books were to follow. The book series was adapted for both radio plays, as well as for the film (including Doctor Dolittle, 1967) and television ( as an animated series).
Quote
"For years it was a constant source of shock to me to find my writings amongst ' Juveniles, " told Lofting. " It does not bother me any more now, but I still feel there Should be a category of ' senile ' to offset the epithet. "
Works
Sorted by year of publication. The drawings in the original books written lofting itself Currently (2006 ) All books are recompiled come on the market.
- The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920 ) ( Doctor Dolittle and his animals, Dressler - ISBN 3-7915-3573-0 )
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922 ) ( Doctor Dolittle floating island, Dressler - ISBN 3-7915-3592-7 )
- Doctor Dolittle 's Post Office (1923 ) ( Doctor Dolittle post office, Dressler - ISBN 3-7915-3599-4 )
- Doctor Dolittle 's Circus (1924 ) ( Doctor Dolittle circus, Dressler - ISBN 3-7915-3525-0 )
- Doctor Dolittle 's Zoo (1925 ) ( Doctor Dolittle Zoo, Dressler - ISBN 3-7915-3546-3 )
- Doctor Dolittle 's Caravan (1926 ) ( Doctor Dolittle animal opera, Dressler - ISBN 3-7915-3550-1 )
- Doctor Dolittle 's Garden (1927 ) ( Doctor Dolittle 's largest travel Dressler - ISBN 3-7915-4017-3 )
- Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928 ) ( Doctor Dolittle on the moon, Dressler - ISBN 3-7915-4018-1 )
- Gub Gub - 's Book, An Encyclopaedia of Food ( 1932) ( Gub Gub - 's book, Williams & Co, Berlin, 1933)
- Doctor Dolittle 's Return (1933 ) ( Doctor Dolittle return Dressler - ISBN 3-7915-4019- X)
- Doctor Dolittle 's Birthday Book ( 1936)
Published posthumously:
- Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake ( 1948) ( Doctor Dolittle mysterious lake, Dressler - ISBN 3-7915-4015-7 )
- Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary ( 1950) ( Doctor Dolittle and the green canary, Dressler - ISBN 3-7915-4021-1 )
- Doctor Dolittle 's Puddleby Adventures (1952) ( Adventures with Doctor Dolittle, including: Doctor Dolittle new adventures, Dressler - ISBN 3- 7915-4022 -X)