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Hugh Lofting

Hugh Lofting

Author 16 / Writer 4 · 1920 – 2008 · 🎬 4 📖 16

Hugh John Lofting was an English-American writer, trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character Doctor Dolittle. The fictional physician talking to animals, based in an English village, first appeared in illustrated letters to his children which Lofting sent from British Army trenches in the First World War. Lofting settled in the United States soon after the war and before his first book was published.

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