Margaret Hodges

Sarah Margaret Hodges née Moore (July 26, 1911 – December 13, 2005)[1] was an American writer of children's books, librarian, and storyteller.

She enrolled at Tudor Hall, a college preparatory school for girls.

A 1932 graduate of Vassar College, she arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial.

Illustrator Trina Schart Hyman won the annual Caldecott Medal for the 1985 picture book Saint George and the Dragon written by Hodges.

Hodges died of heart disease on December 13, 2005, at her home in Oakmont, Pennsylvania.