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Article: NAOMI LEWIS
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 18, 2009
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Poet and celebrated anthologist of British children's literature
Petite, continuing to wear her greying hair long and often
dressed in clothes that had seen better days, Naomi Lewis stood out
in more ways than one as the leading anthologist of British
children's literature over the past 50 years. Formidably well read,
she was a searching critic and a published poet. Hesitant in manner
but confident in her opinions, her elfin presence at literary
gatherings was a guarantee of lively and enlightening conversation.
Born in Great Yarmouth in 1911, the second of four children,
Lewis was the daughter of a dreamy Russian-Jewish fish merchant.
Originally hailing from Latvia, he took the surname of ...