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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... young!” I suppose this is natural given the fact that mention of her death in 1952, “when she was still a young person” (Margaret was forty- two), is just about the only biographical information supplied on the flap of Goodnight Moon ...
... young company man like Robert Brown was a conservative Republican but for the fact that his own father, the Honorable B. Gratz Brown of Missouri, had been one of the nation's most progressive political leaders during the Civil War and ...
... Young Robert, having noticed a black person in the street, made some casual remark about “that nigger,” whereupon the elder Brown slapped him hard across the face in a show of his utter contempt for bigotry. 6 In later life, Margaret's ...
... young Margaret's imagination, even if she saw them only occasionally. There was an adventurousness, a spirit of fun and extravagance about Lily and Margaretta, both of whom painted and taught art in St. Louis, and about Violet (though ...
... young man he had gone west to Kansas and Missouri , working for the railroads as a civil engineer . Maude's mother , Margaret Naylor Wise Johnson , was the only grandparent whom Margaret , her namesake , ever met . A pious woman whose ...
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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 | |