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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... spring of 1925, when Margaret and Roberta came home to the United States, the house in Beechurst had been sold and her parents were living in temporary quarters on Long Island before leaving for Maine for the summer. The plan was to ...
... voted her " Most Serious " -Roberta was voted " Brightest . But as commencement day approached in the spring of 1928 , it appeared that Margaret might not graduate . " 133 She had induced the class valedictorian and its treasurer to.
... spring, a visiting former Hollins professor, Dr. John M. McBride, prefaced a formal lecture on Southern folklore with a nostalgic slide talk on Hollins life as he had known it a quarter of a century earlier. As the professor's slides ...
... spring term read like a comedy routine, with Martha, who planned to stay on for a few leisurely days after her roommate left for the North, naturally reduced to the straight-man's role. MONDAY. [Martha:] See Mary all day—the walk, the ...
... spring recess , Margaret travelled to Little Rock , Arkansas , to be married - or so she had told Martha - to a young Southern lawyer she had met on the rounds of parties at neighboring men's colleges . The story sounded a bit ...
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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 | |