De Angeli << dee AN juh lih >>, Marguerite Lofft (1889-1987), was an American author and illustrator of children’s books. She was best known for her stories about minority groups. Thee Hannah! (1940) is about a Quaker girl, and Yonie Wondernose (1944) tells the story of a Pennsylvania Dutch boy. Bright April (1946) describes a Black girl’s experience with racial prejudice. De Angeli won the 1950 Newbery Medal for The Door in the Wall (1949), a story of England in the 1300’s. She collected and illustrated a Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes (1954). Her poems were published in Friendship and Other Poems (1981).
De Angeli was born on March 14, 1889, in Lapeer, Michigan. She died on June 16, 1987.
