Hugh John Lofting (14 January 1886 26 September 1947) was an English author trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic childrens literature character of Doctor Dolittle. It first appeared in illustrated letters to his children written by Lofting from the British Army trenches in World War I.Hugh Loftings character Doctor John Dolittle, an English physician from PuddlebyontheMarsh in the West Country, who could speak to animals, first saw light in the authors illustrated letters to children, written from the trenches during the 19141918 War, when actual news, he later said, was either too horrible or too dull. The stories are set in early Victorian England in the 1820s1840s (The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle gives a date of 1839). He was living in Killingworth, Connecticut, while he wrote most of the instalments to the series.The Story of Doctor Dolittle Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts Never Before Printed (1920) began the series and won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. The sequel The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922) won Lofting the prestigious Newbery Medal. Eight more books followed, and after Loftings death two more appeared, composed of short previously unpublished pieces.The internal chronology of the books is somewhat different from the publishing order. The first book is followed by Doctor Dolittles Post Office (1923), Doctor Dolittles Circus (1924) and Doctor Dolittles Caravan (1926). Only...

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