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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... never forgot the things she noticed, for she charged them with her own intense feeling. This power of enhancing and ennobling life was felt by all who knew her. EDMUND WILSON ON, EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, The Shores of Light speak ...
... never freed herself altogether from the suspicion that to have written for adults would have been a greater achievement . It's possible I knew some of Margaret Wise Brown's books as a child growing up in the early fifties , but if I did ...
... never pretended to more knowledge or self-knowledge than was properly hers. She never gave up on growing up. Not least of all for.
... never understood why Dixie Land kept looking away , but that was just the way she was . " 2 As the author of more than fifty books , Margaret later observed that memory , the ultimate source of her creative work , is a " wild and ...
... never got along. As the self-styled protector of the family name, Violet found fault with both Gratz's and Roberta's marriage partners, declaring them “foreigners,” by which she meant that they lacked distinguished backgrounds on a par ...
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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 | |