Biography
Barbara Euphan Todd was an English writer best known as the creator of the children's character Worzel Gummidge. She published the first of ten novels about the scarecrow, Worzel Gummidge, or The Scarecrow of Scatterbrook, in 1936. The book became the inaugural title in the Puffin Books series.
Her Worzel Gummidge stories were adapted for radio, including appearances on Children's Hour, and for television. The character featured in a 1953 BBC series, a 1979–1981 ITV series, and the 2019 series for which she is credited as creator. Todd also wrote other children's fiction and one adult novel, Miss Ranskill Comes Home (1946). She died in 1976.
