Biography enid blyton

Enid Blyton (11 August 1897 – – 28 November 1968) (also known as Mary Pollock) was the most successful children’s writer of her generation. A prolific writer, she completed over 400 books during her lifetime.

She is in the top 10 all-time bestseller lists – her books having sold over 600 million copies

Shy in her relations with the public, Enid Blyton revealed little of her private life. She was born in the late 1890s and was brought up in Buckingham.

Her father hoped she might become a concert pianist, but despite her talent for music, she made the decision to be a children’s writer.

She took Froebel training and became a governess to a family of boys in Surrey and this experience encouraged her to set up a school for boys.

In her spare time, she began writing a variety of children’s stories.

These ranged from natural botany books, biblical stories, a simplified version of Pilgrim’s Promise, to the Famous Five series and the ubiquitous Noddy