Pauline Clarke

Pauline Clarke
Born
Anne Pauline Clarke

(1921-05-19)19 May 1921
Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England
Died23 July 2013(2013-07-23) (aged 92)
NationalityEnglish
Other names
  • Helen Clare
  • Pauline Hunter Blair
EducationSomerville College, Oxford
OccupationAuthor
Notable workThe Twelve and the Genii

Pauline Clarke (19 May 1921 – 23 July 2013)[1][2] was an English author who wrote for younger children under the name Helen Clare, for older children as Pauline Clarke, and later for adults under her married name Pauline Hunter Blair. Her best-known work is The Twelve and the Genii, a low fantasy children's novel published by Faber in 1962, for which she won the 1962 Carnegie Medal, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and the 1968 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.[3]

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