{{short description|British book editor and children's book author}} {{Use British English|date=December 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2014}} {{Infobox writer | name = Eleanor Graham | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1896|1|9}} | birth_place = Walthamstow, United Kingdom | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1984|3|8|1896|1|9}} | death_place = London, United Kingdom | spouse = | occupation = writer, book editor | nationality = British | period = | genre = children's literature | subject<!-- designed for nonfiction --> = | movement = | notableworks = {{plainlist| ''The Children Who Lived in a Barn'' }} | awards = {{awd |Eleanor Farjeon Award |est. 1966}} | influenced = | signature = }} '''Eleanor Graham''' (9 January 1896, in Walthamstow, England – 8 March 1984, in London) was a book editor and children's book author.
She worked for Lady Muriel Paget's aid mission in Czechoslovakia before becoming an editor for publishers Heinemann and Methuen Publishing and a reviewer of children's books at ''The Sunday Times'', among others. During the Second World War, she became editor of Penguin's children's imprint Puffin Books.
After her retirement in 1961, she received the Eleanor Farjeon Award from the Children's Book Circle.<ref name="morse">{{cite ODNB|last=Morse|first=Elizabeth J.|title=Graham, Eleanor (1896–1984)|editor=H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison|year=2004|series=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/58973|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/58973|accessdate=2009-08-24}}</ref>
==Early life== Graham's father was the editor of ''Country Life''. She moved with her family from Scotland to Essex in 1900.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Eleanor Graham |work=Authors |publisher=Persephone Books |url=http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/pages/authors/index.asp?id=27 |accessdate=31 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719183202/http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/pages/authors/index.asp?id=27 |archivedate=19 July 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref> She attended North London Collegiate School.<ref>{{Cite web | last =Ellis | first =Peter Berresford | title =Sophie Bryant (part 1) | work =Irish Democrat | publisher =Connolly Publications | date =10 December 2008 | url =http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/features/sophie-bryant-1/ | accessdate =31 January 2011 }}</ref>
==Works== *''The Children Who Lived in a Barn'' (1938) Reprinted by Persephone Books in 2001 *''The Story of Charles Dickens'' (1952), as part of the ''Story Biography'' series *''A Puffin Book of Verse'' (1953) (anthology) *''The Story of Jesus'' (1960)<ref name="morse"/> *''J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan: The Story of the Play'', illustrated by Edward Ardizzone (Brockhampton Press, 1962)<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Graham|first1=Eleanor|title=Peter Pan; the story of the play.|last2=Barrie|first2=J. M|last3=Ardizzone|first3=Edward|date=1962|publisher=Brockhampton Press|location=Leicester|language=English|oclc=25431552}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} *''[http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/the-children-who-lived-in-a-barn.html The Children Who Lived in a Barn]'' at Persephone Books
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