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Walter de la Mare OM, CH born 25 April 1873.
An English poet who also wrote short stories. His 1921 novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children's books.
Novels
Henry Brocken (1904)
The Three Mulla Mulgars (1910) (edition illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop [1919]), also published as The Three Royal Monkeys (children's novel)
The Return (1910; revised edition 1922; second revised edition 1945)
Memoirs of a Midget (1921)
Mr. Bumps and His Monkey (1942) (illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop)
Short story collections
The Riddle and Other Stories (1923)
Ding Dong Bell (1924)
Broomsticks and Other Tales (1925) (children's stories)
The Connoisseur and Other Stories (1926)
On the Edge (1930)
The Lord Fish (1930) (children's stories)
The Dutch Cheese (1931) (editions illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop (1931) and Irene Hawkins (1947)) (children's stories)
The Walter de la Mare Omnibus (1933)
The Wind Blows Over (1936)
The Nap and Other Stories (1936)
Stories, Essays and Poems (1938)
The Best Stories of Walter de la Mare (1942)
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