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Mollie Hunter

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Mollie Hunter


Born
in Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland, The United Kingdom
June 30, 1922

Died
July 31, 2012

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Maureen Mollie Hunter McIlwraith writes under the name Mollie Hunter. Mollie Hunter is one of the most popular and influential twentieth-century Scottish writers of fiction for children and young adults. Her work, which includes fantasy, historical fiction, and realism, has been widely praised and has won many awards and honors, such as the Carnegie Medal, the Phoenix Award, a Boston Globe - Horn Book Honor Award, and the Scottish Arts Council Award.

There has also been great interest in Hunter's views about writing fiction, and she has published two collections of essays and speeches on the subject. Hunter's portrait hangs in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, and her papers and manuscripts are preserved in the Scottish National Libra
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“No mortal ear could have heard the kelpie passing through the night, for the great black hooves of it were as soundless in their stride as feathers falling.”
Mollie Hunter, The Kelpie's Pearls

“He was waiting there for her beside the pool - a great black horse with shoulders like polished ebony and the water still streaming from his mane and tail. Morag stood and looked at him for a long moment. The great horse looked at her and never moved.

“Will you trust me?” he had asked her the evening before, and she had trusted him then. She trusted him now, and so she walked towards him. She grasped his mane, and still the black horse never moved. She stood on a stone beside him, swung herself onto his back, and the black horse moved.”
Mollie Hunter, The Kelpie's Pearls

“She was dressed in a green cloak that covered her to the ankles. A green hood was pulled down over her hair, which was white like that of an old woman. Yet still Hi Johnny could not tell whether she was young or old because her face had no wrinkles and her eyes were as bright and clear as those of a girl.

“You’ve sprung up suddenly, ma’am,” said he, staring at her, and the woman smiled at this.

“I’m always where there are eyes to see me, “ she told him.”
Mollie Hunter, Hi Johnny