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Helen Hoke

Watts, Helen Jeanne Lamb

July 20, 1903 – March 26, 1990 (aged 86)

Birth place: California, Pennsylvania, USA

Grandmother of She "wrote nearly 100 children's books and set up and ran children's book divisions in five publishing companies". Her second husband had founded the eponymous New York publishing company ; they moved to London and founded Franklin Watts Ltd. in 1969. --obituary, NYTimes.com

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