Storr, Catherine
Entry updated 26 August 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1913-2001) UK doctor and author, for many years a psychotherapist, after 1963 a prolific author of journalism, children's books – most famously Marianne Dreams (1958; vt The Magic Drawing Pencil 1960), in which physical and mental malaises are incarnated in a fantasy world; it was adapted by Moira Buffini as the play Marianne Dreams (first performed 2007; 2007) – and an sf novel, Unnatural Fathers (1976), in which the success of an experiment to make men capable of child-bearing causes great upheavals in a Near-Future UK. [JC/BS]
Catherine Storr
born Kensington, London: 21 July 1913
died London: 6 January 2001
works (highly selected)
- Marianne Dreams (London: Faber and Faber, 1958) [illus/hb/Marjorie-Ann Watts]
- The Magic Drawing Pencil (Kent: A S Barnes, 1960) [vt of the above: hb/Marjorie-Ann Watts]
- Rufus (London: Faber and Faber, 1969) [illus/hb/Peggy Fortnum]
- Thursday (London: Faber and Faber, 1971) [hb/]
- Unnatural Fathers (London: Quartet, 1976) [hb/Kathy Wyatt]
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