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Elinor Bruce Lyon (17 August 1921 – 28 May 2008) was an English children's author. ==Background== Lyon was born in Guisborough, Yorkshire, and educated privately, and then at St George's School, Edinburgh〔Fidra Books Newsletter 2. (Retrieved 7 February 2013. )〕 and Headington School, Oxford.〔(Elinor Lyon: children's author | Times Online Obituary ); Robertson, Fidra Books website; ''The Independent'' obituary by Nicholas Tucker, 6 June 2008. (Retrieved 3 January 2013. )〕 She was strongly aware of her Scottish roots.〔Tucker (2008).〕 Her father was ''P. H. B. Lyon''. After a period in Switzerland, she returned to Oxford to read English at Lady Margaret Hall just as World War II began. She completed four terms, but then joined the WRNS because "with many...friends being killed, I couldn't stay there reading Milton."〔Introduction by Elinor Lyon, ''The House in Hiding'', Fidra Books, Edinburgh 2006, ii〕 She served two-and-half years as a radar operator.〔 Elinor was the inspiration for many of John Gillespie Magee, Jr.'s poems. John had met Elinor while attending Rugby School, and remained close friends with Elinor and her family until his death in December 1941.〔Hermann Hagedorn: ''Sunward I've Climbed'' (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942). In this biography of Magee, Elinor is referred to as "Diana".〕 Her father was headmaster at Rugby School; she met her future husband Peter Wright there when he was a temporary classics and English teacher. They became engaged in 1943. He returned to teaching when he was demobbed in 1946, and although Lyon's father retired in 1948 they remained at Rugby until 1975, when they retired to Harlech. Gwynedd.〔Lyon, v〕 They had four children and now have twelve grandchildren. Elinor Lyon died at Harlech on 28 May 2008, her husband having died of a stroke twelve years previously.〔Tucker (2008); ''The Guardian'' obituary, 24 June 2008. (Retrieved 7 February 2013. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elinor Lyon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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