Norton, Mary (1903–1992)

English writer of books of children. The Magic Bedknob (1943) and Bonfires and Broomsticks (1947) were later adapted for film and reissued as Bedknobs and Broomsticks in 1970. She established her reputation and won the Carnegie Medal with The Borrowers (1952), the first of a series of five books which describe a family of tiny people who live beneath the floorboards of a large house.