Florence Atwater co-authored the book Mr. Popper's Penguins, which won the 1939 Newbery Honor Prize. Florence Atwater started life in Chicago, the last child of Mary Josephine (minnie) Delany, a former concert pianist with the Philadelphia Conservatory, and James Carroll, a Philadelphia publisher. As Florence Carroll, she obtained her Ab and Ma in French literature at the High school of Chicago (1920) where she was co-editor of The Chicago Literary Monthly, and student of Richard Atwater. They married in 1921 and had two children, Doris (1922-2000) and Carroll (1925-).
Florence Atwater
