Enid Blyton was a popular and prolific children's author from the UK who wrote over 131 books. She was born in 1897 in London and died in 1968 at the age of 71, having become one of the most popular children's authors of her time according to a 2008 UK survey. Some of her most famous works were the 21 books in the Famous Five series which became very popular in the United Kingdom.