author
Margery Williams Bianco
1881–1944
Best known for The Velveteen Rabbit, this English-born American writer brought unusual warmth and emotional honesty to children’s fiction. Her stories often treat childhood feelings with real seriousness, which helps explain why they still connect with readers so strongly.
1 Audiobook
The Velveteen Rabbit
by Margery Williams Bianco
About the author
Born in London on July 22, 1881, Margery Williams Bianco moved to the United States as a child and grew up partly in Pennsylvania. She began writing young and published steadily from her late teens, building a career that included novels, stories, and books for children.
Her lasting reputation rests above all on The Velveteen Rabbit (1922), the gentle classic that made her name famous. She wrote many other works as well, and her book Winterbound received a Newbery Honor, showing how widely her writing was admired in her lifetime.
Williams Bianco had a gift for mixing fantasy with deep feeling, especially in stories about love, loss, and what it means to become real to another person. She died in New York City on September 4, 1944, but her best-known work remains one of the most beloved children's books of the twentieth century.