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After serving in World War I , in which he was seriously wounded, he and his family moved to Connecticut in the U.S.A. He was married three times. Hugh Lofting's doctor from Puddleby-on-the-Marsh who could speak to animals first saw light in the author's illustrated letters to children, written from the trenches during World War I when actual news, he later said, was either too horrible or too dull. The stories are set in early Victorian England. '''' (1922) won Lofting the prestigious Newbery Medal . Ten more followed, and after his death two more volumes, composed of short unpublished pieces, appeared. The series has been adapted for film and television many times, for stage twice, and for radio. "For years it was a constant source of shock to me to find my writings amongst 'Juveniles,'" Lofting reported. "It does not bother me any more now, but I still feel there should be a category of 'Seniles' to offset the epithet." EXTERNAL LINKS
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