![]() ![]() ![]() She was a radical, bisexual, East-Coast socialite, and quite honestly, I wish that I had known her.įor years, she was in a relationship with Blanche Oelrichs, who had been married to the famous actor John Barrymore. The truth is that Margaret Wise Brown was far from that. I never bothered to check, and I simply assumed that the author of that rocking-chair picture book was probably some little, old lady. Those books are still being published.īefore I share the following list, I want to admit that before this week, I had formed an absolutely incorrect opinion about the author of Goodnight Moon. After her death, hundreds of pages of unpublished picture book manuscripts were found. For most of the rest of her short life, at least one of her picture books was published each year. When she was 27, her first picture book was published. She lived during the time of the Great Depression, but I doubt if her wealthy family was affected much by what was a financial setback for most of the rest of the people in the USA.īefore she began writing picture books, she essentially lived off her allowance, but her father encouraged her to seek some type of income for herself. Brown was born before World War I began, and she died slowly after World War II ended. ![]() Margaret Wise Brown was born in 1910, and she died from an embolism 42 years later.īy 2022, she would have been 112-years-old. ![]()
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