Author: Margaret Wise Brown

Date of birth: May 23, 1910
Date of death: November 13, 1952
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Margaret Wise Brown was born on May 23, 1910, in Brooklyn, NY, the middle of 3 children, she graduated from Hollins College , Virginia and later worked as a teacher at the Bank Street Experimental School where she started writing books for children. Margaret was a prolific writer, over a 100 of her stories were published as picture books during her lifetime. She also wrote articles about writing for children, adapted classics, and many of her stories appear in anthologies. On November 13, 1952 at the age of 42 she died from an embolism, following a operation while on vacation in France. Posthumously over 100 stories have been published as picture books, many were previously published as stories in collections and anthologies, some are from unfinished works.