Pauline Clarke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pauline Clarke

English children's writer

Date of Birth: 19-May-1921

Place of Birth: Kirkby-in-Ashfield, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 23-Jul-2013

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Pauline Clarke (19 May 1921 – 23 July 2013) was an English author who wrote for younger children under the name Helen Clare, for older children as Pauline Clarke, and more recently for adults under her married name Pauline Hunter Blair.
Her best-known work is The Twelve and the Genii, a low fantasy children's novel published by Faber in 1962, for which she won the 1962 Carnegie Medal and the 1968 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.