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Walter de la Mare
English poet and fiction writer (–)
Walter John de la MareOM CH (;[1] 25 April – 22 June ) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist.
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He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners",[2] and for his psychological horror short fiction, including "Seaton's Aunt" and "All Hallows". In , his novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction,[3] and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books.[4]
Life
De la Mare was born at 83, Maryon Road, Charlton, then in the county of Kent but now part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
He was partly descended from a family of French Huguenot silk merchants through his father, James Edward de la Mare (–), a principal at the Bank of England; his mother was James's second wife, Lucy Sophia (–), daughter of a Scottish naval surgeon and author, Dr Coli