Published in England by Angus & Robertson Source for this update = Eleanor Frances Lattimore's eldest son.Other stories are based on the adventures of her five grandchildren. The Andrews lived much of the time in Charleston and nearby Edisto Island, South Carolina, and some of her stories are based there and in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Miami, Florida where they also lived. "Pink Shoes", a picture book, was published as a paperback in 2016.Įleanor Frances Lattimore married Robert Armstrong Andrews, a writer and newspaper man, in 1934 and they had two sons, Peter and Michael. Her 57th book, Proudfoot's Way, was published in 1978. She continued to be a leading children's book author for most of five decades. Her first book, Little Pear, published in 1931, is considered a children's classic. A number of her stories are based on her experiences growing up in China. But she became known as the author and illustrator of more than fifty popular children's books. She studied art in Oakland, California, Boston, and New York City and worked for several years as a freelance artist.
area the three younger children, Isabel, Eleanor, and Richmond ("Dick") were born in China.Įleanor Frances Lattimore came to the United States in 1920 after her father became a professor of Chinese Studies at Dartmouth College. The Lattimores' two older children, Katharine and Owen, were born in the Washington, D.
They traveled by steamship to China in 1902 while Margaret was pregnant with their third child, Isabel. area where David Lattimore and his wife Margaret (Barnes) Lattimore had taught in secondary schools. The Lattimores were from the Washington, D. She was the sister of poet and classics translator Richmond Lattimore and China expert Owen Lattimore. Eleanor Frances Lattimore (June 30, 1904, Shanghai, China – May 12, 1986, Raleigh, North Carolina) was an American writer and illustrator born in what was called the American Compound in Shanghai and raised in China where her father, David Lattimore, taught English at a Chinese government university.
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