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![]() ![]() She died at her London flat in January 2001. Storr continued writing novels into her eighties. She later married the economist Lord Balogh (1905–1985). They had three daughters, Sophia, Polly and Emma, but divorced in 1970. She had met the psychiatrist and author Anthony Storr (1920–2001) during her training and married him in 1942. Afterwards, while regularly producing children's books, she also worked as an editorial assistant for Penguin Books from 1966 to the early 1970s. ![]() From 1950 to 1963 she acted as a Senior Medical Officer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Middlesex Hospital. Without giving up this ambition, she studied medicine, qualifying as a doctor in 1944. She went on to study English literature at Newnham College, Cambridge, and at first pursued a career as a novelist without success. ![]() She attended St Paul's Girls' School, where she was taught music by Gustav Holst and became the school's organist. ![]() She was born in Kensington, London, one of three children of a barrister, Arthur Frederick Andrew Cole (1883–1968), and his wife, Margaret Henrietta, born Gaselee (1882–1971). She also wrote under the name Helen Lourie. Catherine Storr, Baroness Balogh (born Catherine Cole 21 July 1913 – 8 January 2001, ) was an English children's writer, best known for her novel Marianne Dreams and for a series of books about a wolf ineptly pursuing a young girl, beginning with Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf. ![]()
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