Tales of Polly and the Hungry Wolf

About Catherine Storr

Catherine Storr (1913-2001) was an English children's writer best known for her novel Marianne Dreams and for the Clever Polly series. She was born in London and attended St Paul's Girls' School and went on to study English literature at Newnham College Cambridge. She tried unsuccessfully to become a novelist but without giving up this ambition she studied medicine qualifying as a doctor in 1944. She worked at the Middlesex Hospital. Afterwards while regularly producing new children's books she also worked as an editorial assistant for Penguin Books from 1966 to the early seventies.She married in 1942 and in 1944 had the first of her three daughters. She divorced in 1970 and remarried the economist Lord Balogh (1905-1985).