Barbara Willard, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Barbara Willard

English children's writer

Date of Birth: 12-Mar-1909

Date of Death: 18-Feb-1994

Profession: writer, children's writer, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Barbara Mary Willard (12 March 1909 – 18 February 1994) was a British novelist best known for children's historical fiction.
Her "Mantlemass Chronicles" is a family saga set in 15th to 17th-century England.
For one chronicle, The Iron Lily (1973), she won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by panel of British children's writers.