Margaret Wise Brown

1910–1952

1 standalone book

Margaret Wise Brown was an American writer of children's books, born in 1910 in Brooklyn, New York. She worked as a teacher at the Bank Street Experimental School, where she began writing books for children. A prolific author, over 100 of her stories were published as picture books during her lifetime. She also wrote articles about writing for children, adapted classic works, ghostwrote stories, and her works appeared in various anthologies. Brown died on November 13, 1952, at the age of 42, from an embolism following an operation while she was on vacation in France. Several stories were published posthumously, and in recent years, many of her works have been reprinted. Some of these were previously published in collections and anthologies, while others come from unfinished manuscripts.

Born

1910