 Enid Blyton was a British writer who published over 600 children's or juvenile books during her 40-year career. Blyton's most famous series was The Famous Five. Its central characters were Julian, Dick, Anne, George, and the dog Timmy. Her works celebrated good food, spirit of comradeship, and honesty.
By the 1980s, Blyton's books had sold some 60 million copies and had been translated into nearly seventy languages.
Enid Blyton was born in London, in a small flat above a shop in East Dulwich. She was the eldest of three children.
From her earliest childhood, Blyton had been schooled in the belief that she would eventually be a musician. However, she had also started to write and send stories, articles, and poems to various periodicals.
Blyton, who was trained as a kindergarten teacher at Ipswich High School, opened her own infants' school. When the literary commitments increased, Blyton devoted herself entirely to writing.
In 1924 Blyton married Hugh Pollock, an editor of the book department of George Newnes. In 1929 they moved to "Old Thatch", a large sixteenth-century cottage, close to the River Thames at Bourne End in Buckinghamshire.
The house, that was to be associated with Blyton for the rest of her life, was Green Hedges. It was built of red brick with black and white half-timbered gables, and situated in Beaconsfield, a small town about twenty-five miles from London.
Blyton's first full-length children's adventure book, The Secret Island, was published in 1938. This fast-moving story, woven around familiar characters, led to such series as The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, the Adventure series, the Mystery series, and the 'Barney' 'R' Mystery books. [edit]
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