Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges Autographed Signed retail by the Author

Product Name: Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges Autographed Signed retail by the Author
Saint George and the Dragon Retold by Margaret Hodges. Autographed by the author herself. Margaret "Peggy" Hodges was an American writer of books for children. She was born Sarah Margaret Moore in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Carlisle and Annie Marie Moore. She enrolled at Tudor Hall, a college preparatory school for girls. A 1932 graduate retail of Vassar College, she arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial. She trained as a librarian at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, under Elizabeth Nesbitt, and she volunteered as a storyteller at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Beginning in 1958 with One Little Drum, she wrote and published more than 40 books. Her 1985 book Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, won the Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association. Hodges died of heart disease on December 13, 2005 at her home.