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Marguerite de Angeli March 14, — June 16, was an American writer and illustrator of children's books including the Newbery Award winning book The Door in the Wall. She wrote and illustrated twenty-eight of her own books, and illustrated more than three dozen books and numerous magazine stories and articles for other authors. In , she met John Dailey de Angeli, a violinist , known as Dai.

They were married in Toronto on April 12, The first of their six children, John Shadrach de Angeli, was born one year later. Her last child, Maurice Bower de Angeli, was born in , seven years before the publication of her first book, Ted and Nina Go to the Grocery Store. In , two years after her husband died, de Angeli published her autobiography, Butter at the Old Price.

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She died at the age of 98 on June 16, , in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was survived by her 3 of her 4 sons: Arthur, Harry and Maurice; daughter, Nina Kuhn; 13 grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren. In her illustrations Marguerite de Angeli employed a number of different media, including charcoal , pen and ink, lithograph only in earliest work , oils , and watercolors.

Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , is the regional setting of many, but not all, of her books. Her work explored and depicted the traditions and rich cultural diversity of common people more frequently overlooked — a semi-autobiographical Great Depression family, African American children experiencing the sting of racial prejudice , Polish mine workers aspiring to life beyond the Pennsylvania coal mines, the physically handicapped, colonial Mennonites , the Amish , nineteenth-century Quakers supporting the underground railroad, immigrants, and other traditional or ethnic peoples.