A look at the fascinating life of Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon will be featured tomorrow on The Today Show. Link will be provided when available.
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A page from Margaret’s 1927 diary. She pressed her corsage into its pages to remind her of the evening.
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President’s Pick at Books-a-Million
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My biography on Margaret Wise Brown, In the Great Green Room, was included in this Publishers Weekly forthcoming books roundup!
Overview
For decades children and their parents around the world have cuddled together to read Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny. While the lulling words of these stories have formed nighttime rituals for millions, few know that these classic works were part of a publishing revolution led by Margaret Wise Brown, who was renowned not only for her prolific writing and creative genius, but also for her stunning beauty and thirst for adventure.
In 1990, author Amy Gary discovered unpublished manuscripts, songs, personal letters, and diaries from Margaret tucked away in a trunk in the attic of Margaret s sister s barn. Since then, Gary has pored over these works and with this unique insight in to Margaret s world she chronicles her rise in the literary world. Clever, quirky, and wildly imaginative, Margaret embraced life with passion, threw wild parties, attended rabbit hunts, and lived extravagantly off of her royalties. She carried on long and troubled love affairs with both men and women, including the ex-wife of John Barrymore, and was engaged to a younger man (who was the son of a Carnegie and a Rockefeller) when she died unexpectedly at the age of 42.
In the Great Green Room captures the exceptional spirit of Margaret whose unrivaled talent breathed new life in to the literary world.
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By KEITH SHORTALL • AUG 17, 2016
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