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Hugh Lofting, English author and poet, created Doctor Dolittle (died 1947)
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Hugh Lofting
English-American children's writer (1886–1947)
Hugh John Lofting was an English-American writer, trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character Doctor Dolittle. The fictional physician talking to animals, based in an English village, first appeared in illustrated letters to his children…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Character from novels by Hugh Lofting
Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting starting with the 1920 The Story of Doctor Dolittle. He is a physician who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later becomes a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)