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Peggy Parish (Margaret Cecile Parish) was born on 14 July, 1927 in Manning, South Carolina, U.S., is an American writer. Discover Peggy Parish's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

Popular As Margaret Cecile Parish
Occupation Writer
Age 61 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 14 July, 1927
Birthday 14 July
Birthplace Manning, South Carolina, U.S.
Date of death 19 November, 1988
Died Place Manning, South Carolina, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1927

Margaret Cecile "Peggy" Parish (July 14, 1927 – November 19, 1988) was an American writer known best for the children's book series and fictional character Amelia Bedelia.

Parish was born in Manning, South Carolina, attended the University of South Carolina, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.

She worked as a teacher in Oklahoma, Kentucky, and in New York.

She taught at the Dalton School in Manhattan for 15 years and published her first children's book while teaching third grade there.

She authored over 30 books, which had sold 7 million copies at the time of her death.

Parish's most well-known character, Amelia Bedelia, is extremely literal minded and interprets idioms and other verbal expressions literally, which amusingly causes great Havoc in each story.

This idea originated in conversations between Parish and Greenwillow Books founder Susan Hirschman about the author's observations of her third grade students.

Amelia works as a household cook and occasional servant, jobs that Parish did in her home when she was young.

She uses no recipes, but, by intuitively combining a little bit of this and a little bit of that, her cakes and cookies and meals are always delicious.

She is such a good cook that her employers cannot fire her, despite the disastrous way she misinterprets their instructions: prune the shrubs, scale and ice the fish, file the letters, run over the tablecloth with an iron, shorten these dresses, serve coffee with porridge, heat a can of soup, and so on.

The author's word-play, and Amelia Bedelia's fundamental goodness and childlike simplicity appeal to youngsters who are beginning to see and enjoy more than one meaning in a word or a phrase.

Parish's nephew, Herman, honored Peggy's life in his book, Good Driving, Amelia Bedelia, by writing in its dedication: "For Peggy Parish, the real Amelia."

Recalling Parish's method while working on Too Many Rabbits, Herman described how she wrote out her ideas on index cards, "and she’d deal out those cards like she was playing solitaire, and then pick them up, retype them, and rewrite everything many times. That was how she worked, and it gave me a lot of respect for her method."

Illustrated by Wallace Tripp, Fritz Siebel, Lynne Avril, Barbara Siebel Thomas or Lynn Sweat: