Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952)
Author of Goodnight Moon
About the Author
Margaret Wise Brown was born on May 10, 1910 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, to Robert Brown, a Vice President at American Manufacturing Company and Maud Brown, a housewife. She attended school in Lausanne, Switzerland for three years, before attending Dana Hall in Wellesley, Massachusetts for show more two years. In 1928, she began taking classes at Hollis College in Virginia. In 1935, Brown began working at the Bank Street Cooperative School for student teachers. Two years later, her writing career took off with the publication of "When the Wind Blows." Over the course of fourteen years, Brown wrote over one hundred picture books for children. Some of her best known titles include Goodnight Moon, Big Red Barn and Runaway Bunny. Margaret Wise Brown died on November 13, 1952 of an embolism following an operation in Nice, France. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
Golden MacDonald, Juniper Sage, Timothy Hay, and Kaintuck Brown are pen names of Margaret Wise Brown.
Image credit: Margaret Wise Brown
Series
Works by Margaret Wise Brown
Goodnight Moon Classic Library: Contains Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and My World (2006) 108 copies, 2 reviews
Bunnies 19 copies
The Little Golden Book Library 4 Book Cased Set Golden Favorites * Bedtime Stories * Our Wonderful World * Fairy Tales… (1969) 8 copies
Black and white 3 copies
The Bad Little Duckhunter 2 copies
The Big Fur Secret 2 copies
The Hidden House 2 copies
the little fireman / I WANT TO FLY 2 copies
Important Thing, The 1 copy
Five Little Fireman (1949) 1 copy
They all saw it 1 copy
The children's year 1 copy
Big Red Barn Activities 1 copy
Hyvä yötä, pikku karhu 1 copy
Slaap zacht Kleintje 1 copy
The Noisy Bird Book 1 copy
The Quite Noisy Book 1 copy
The Peppermint family 1 copy
Willie's walk to grandmama 1 copy
The poodle and the sheep 1 copy
Tel tot 10 met muis 1 copy
Pussycat's Christmas 1 copy
Springtime Stories 1 copy
The streamlined pig 1 copy
Oi, mikä talo! 1 copy
Big dog, little dog 1 copy
Associated Works
The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud (1998) — Author — 1,632 copies, 14 reviews
The Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature, Volumes 1-2 (1955) — Contributor — 472 copies, 4 reviews
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Common Knowledge
- Other names
- MacDonald, Golden
Sage, Juniper
Brown, Kaintuck
Hay, Timothy - Birthdate
- 1910-05-23
- Date of death
- 1952-11-13
- Burial location
- Cremated
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Nice, France
- Cause of death
- an embolism, shortly after surgery for an ovarian cyst
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
- Education
- Hollins College
- Occupations
- writer
children's book author
teacher - Relationships
- Strange, Michael (partner)
- Short biography
- Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories before she died at the age of 42 after surgery for a burst appendix. She published under her own name as well as under several pen names including Timothy Hay, Golden MacDonald, Juniper Sage, and Kaintuck Brown. According to a Web site dedicated to her, before Margaret began writing books for children, fairytales and fables dominated the world of illustrated stories. But Margaret, or Brownie, as her friends called her, wrote with the then "new" idea that children would rather read about their own lives instead. Many of her books are considered classics of the genre.
- Disambiguation notice
- Golden MacDonald, Juniper Sage, Timothy Hay, and Kaintuck Brown are pen names of Margaret Wise Brown.
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Statistics
- Works
- 237
- Also by
- 11
- Members
- 68,308
- Popularity
- #195
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
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- Languages
- 17
- Favorited
- 24