Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened By The MoonHarperCollins, 16 okt 2018 - 366 pagina's "Leonard S. Marcus... has masterfully written about a fascinating woman who in her short life changed literature for the very young. I was throroughly enchanted."--Eric Carle Nearly fifty years after her sudden death at the age of forty-two, Margaret Wise Brown remains a legend and an enigma. Author of Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and dozens of other children's classics, Brown all but invented the picture book as we know it today. Combining poetic instinct with a profound empathy for small children, she understood a child's need for security, love, and a sense of being at home in the world. Yet, these were comforts that had eluded her. Her sparkling presence and her unparalleled success as a legendary children's book author masked an insecurity that left her restless and vulnerable. In this authoritative and moving biography, Leonard S. Marcus, who had access to never-before-published letters and family papers, portrays Brown's complex character and her tragic, seesaw life. Colorful, thoughtful, and insightful, Margaret Wise Brown is both a portrayal of a woman whose stories still speak to millions and a portrait of New York in the 1930s and 1940s, when the literary world blossomed and made history. |
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... Hollins College 5. Margaret in May Day Court costume, 1932 6. Graduation portrait, Hollins College, 1932 7. Marguerite Capen Hearsey 8. Lucy Sprague Mitchell 9. Children at the City & Country School, New York, 1937 10. Revised ...
... Hollins Institute ( afterwards known as Hollins 8 College ) in 1899. A striking , well - spoken woman ( she had received high marks in elocution at Hollins ) , Maude had , according to family legend , dreamed of going to New York to ...
... Hollins College.34 By then Gratz was an engineering major at M.I.T. and , much to Robert Brown's satisfaction , was ... Hollins College , near Roanoke , Virginia . Referred to with pride as " the Mount Holyoke of the South " by its ...
... Hollins campus was the quadrangle formed of ambling three - story red brick neo - classical buildings softened by touches of white Victorian gingerbread . Broad wooden porches , balconies , and colonnades edged the central lawn , which ...
Awakened By The Moon Leonard S. Marcus. its eighty year history, Hollins had been owned and administered by the Cocke family. At Hollins, with its small, secluded campus and a student population of fewer than three hundred women ...
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Bank Street and Beyond | |
Everywhere and Somewhere | |
Other Houses Other Worlds | |
In the Great Green Room | |
Graver Cadences | |
The Fidget Wheels of Time | |
Acknowledgments | |
Index | |
Also by Leonard S Marcus | |