Marni Hodgkin

Hodgkin's career as a children's book editor started in New York, working for Viking Press. She then worked for Rupert Hart-Davis in London.^[6]

Hodgkin became Children's Book Editor at Macmillan Publishing Company, which she joined in 1966. Until her arrival, Macmillan had never had a children's literature department, even though its authors included Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling.^[4][6] Picture books that she edited included Kevin Crossley-Holland's The Green Children (1969) and Graham Oakley's Church Mouse series.^[7] She rejected Roald Dahl's work twice.^[7] She retired from Macmillan in 1978 when her husband was named master of Trinity College, Cambridge.^[6]

She was a successful writer of children's literature in her own right, including Young Winter's Tales, Student Body (1950), and Dead Indeed (1955).^[4] The last two were detective stories, based on her time at Swarthmore College and Viking Press, respectively.^[6]

She married Alan Lloyd Hodgkin in 1944; they had met while he was working at the Rockefeller Institute in 1938.^[7][8] They had three daughters and one son. Jonathan Hodgkin became a molecular biologist at Cambridge University. Deborah Hodgkin is a psychologist.^[4] Her husband, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology in 1963.^[6]

She died on 11 March 2015 at the age of 97 in Cambridge, England.^[6]