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Leonora Blanche “Nora” Lang (née Alleyne) was an English author, editor, and translator. She is best known as variously the translator, collaborator and writer of The Fairy Books, a series of 25 collections of folk and fairy tales for children she published with her husband, Andrew Lang (1844-1912), between 1889 and 1913. The best known of these are the Rainbow Fairy Books, a series of twelve collections of fairy tales each assigned a different colour.
Born: 8 March 1851 in Bristol
Died: 10 July 1933
Nationality: British
Gender: Female