Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren was a Swedish children's book author and screenwriter, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 countries. She wrote the Pippi Longstocking books. Wikipedia
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Astrid Lindgren was born Astrid Ericsson on November 14, 1907 on a farm called Nas outside the small town of Vimmerby in Sweden. falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/lindgren.htm
Grew up in Småland outside Vimmerby in the south of Sweden. Her first book came out in 1944, and she made a breakthrough the following year with the stories about Pippi Longstocking. Countless stories about Pippi and other characters of Astrid's imaginati www.imdb.com/name/nm0511807/
