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Natalie Babbitt nee Moore (b. July 28, 1932, Dayton, Ohio) is an American author best known for her children's books, most notably, her classic, Tuck Everlasting. Babbitt grew up in Ohio where her childhood loves were myths and fairy tales. She aspired to be an illustrator and specialized in art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College. She married academic administrator Samuel Fisher Babbitt immediately after college and for ten years raising her children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.
Babbitt wrote her first children's book in collaboration with her husband, The Forty-Ninth Magician (1966). When her husband took a job as the president of Kirkland College, Babitt was forced to write on her own. She focused on rhyme for her first two solo works Dick Foote and the Shark and Phoebe's Revolt which she illustrated herself. She followed up with The Search for Delicious, and the novels Kneeknock Rise and Goody Hall.
In 1975 she wrote the classic Tuck Everlasting about ten-year-old Winnie Foster who faces a decision between immortality or a natural life.
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