As per our current Database, Mem Fox is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Mem Fox is 78 years, 2 months and 2 days old. Mem Fox will celebrate 79rd birthday on a Wednesday 5th of March 2025. Below we countdown to Mem Fox upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Mem Fox |
| Occupation | Children's Author |
| Age | 78 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
| Born | March 5, 1946 (Melbourne, Australia) |
| Birthday | March 5 |
| Town/City | Melbourne, Australia |
| Nationality | Australia |
Mem Fox’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Mem Fox was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
An Australian children's author, educator, and literacy advocate, she is best known for works such as Possum Magic (1983), Time for Bed (1993), and Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes (2008). Her controversial work, Guess What?, appeared on the list of the 100 Most Challenged Books in America from 1990 until 2000.
She attended drama school in England before beginning her career in education and children's literature. She taught literacy studies at Flinders University until 1996.
Her literary honors include the Advance Australia Award for an outstanding contribution to Australian literature (1991), and in 2005 she was appointed by Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark as one of five Australian ambassadors of Hans Christian Andersen in celebration of the author's 200th anniversary.
She married Teacher Malcolm Fox in 1969. The couple welcomed a daughter, Chloe Fox, in 1971.
She had a passion for children's literacy, as did Jim Davis, who established the Professor Garfield Foundation to promote the cause.
