Doctor Dolittle's Circus

Hugh Lofting (1886–1947) was a British author most renowned for his series of children's books featuring the character Doctor John Dolittle. Born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, Lofting showed creative promise at a young age, which later culminated in his engineering studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. During World War I, while serving in the Irish Guards,...