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Margaret Caring Light brown (23 May 1910 - 13 November 1952) was a United States author of children's literature, which include Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny.

Black was natural around Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and she attended boarding school within 1923 in Switzerland while her parents were in India. She late attended Dana Hall in 1926, where she did easily around athletics. When graduation at Dana Hall inside 1928, Brown went onto Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia.

As punishment graduation at Hollins College inside 1932, Brown worked within teaching, & too deliberate art. It was when working at a Bank Street Experimental School in New York City that she started writing books for tykes. Her foremost book was Whenever a Wind Blew.

'last went in to prepare her On text & At present stories, & late a Noisy Book series piece made use of when editor at William R. Scott Publishing Company.

In the early Fifties, she wrote many books for the Little Golden Books series including Mister Dog & Sailor Mutt.

Around 1952 Brown met James Stillman Rockefeller Jr. at a party, and he later proposed to her. around 13th November of that month spell on the book tour in France, Brown contracted appendicitis and was taken to a hospital in which she died of complications. She was 42 years old at a period of her dying.

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"Brown, Margaret Wise 1910-1952." Something All about andy skinner. 100:35-39. 1999.

Brown, Margaret Wise
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Leonard S, Marcus
Children's Book Historian, Author, Critic. Margaret Wise Brown Biographer, author of Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon. Boston: Beacon, 1992; New York: Quill, 1999.

Harper Collins Margaret Wise Brown Website
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