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Who is the author of the secret garden?

The author of the secret garden is frances hodgson burnett.

Frances Hodgson Burnett, female, a well-known children's literature writer in the English-speaking world, was born in the family of a hardware factory owner in Manchester, England on November 24th, 1849.

when my father died in p>1853, my mother continued to operate until the factory closed down. In 1865, he immigrated to Tennessee with his family. In 1872, she married Dr. S.M.Burnett and had two sons. In 195, he officially became an American citizen.

He has been writing all his life, and has created more than 4 novels, many of which have been selected for primary and secondary school texts in Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa and other countries.

The representative works are The Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, all of which were all the rage.

Dozens of color versions have been published all over the world, and they have been adapted into movies or TV series. For more than a century, they have been essential literary reading materials for British and American families to cultivate their children's sentiment.

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The Secret Garden became a best seller when it was published in 1911, and later it was published in Britain and the United States at the same time, with numerous editions. In 1919, 1939 and 1993, it was made into a film in the United States, and it was made into a TV cartoon in 1994.

These three films were all children's films that were box-office hits at that time. Among them, the one in 1993 came from the internationally renowned Polish-French director Agnieszka Holland (Agnieszka? Holland)。 The famous Europe, Europe is also Holland's work.

The Secret Garden is Holland's first English film, but this book is no stranger to her, because she read it many times when she was young. At the beginning of the 2th century, The Secret Garden was adapted into musicals and plays when it was first published.

In p>1991, it was adapted into a musical again, which was a great success. The screenwriter is Marsha Norman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. The number of performances of this play is as high as 76.

The grand prize in American movies is Oscar, while the drama has Tony Award. In the Tony Award in 1991, The Secret Garden won two top prizes.

In English children's literature, this novel is recognized as a masterpiece that has no age limit, and it is also a literary work that bridges the boundary between elegance and vulgarity. It has entered the palace of serious literature and won the popular market.

To prove the status of this novel, just to mention a few points, it was included in Oxford University Press (World's Classic) in Britain, which is an authoritative and serious literary classic.

All the selected books are prefaced and annotated by scholars. Similarly, the publishing giant Penguin Publishing House also included The Secret Garden in Penguin Twentieth-Century Classic.

The author is listed in Introduction to Famous Writers on the p>BBC website. In the United States, the authoritative New York Book Review listed it in the new york Times Reader's Catalog.

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