 Margaret
Wise Brown (1910 - 1952)
Born May 23, 1910 Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died: November 13, 1952 Nice, France
Author of children's literature, which
include Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, both illustrated by
Clement Hurd.
Brown was born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and she attended boarding school
in 1923 in Switzerland while her parents were in India. She later
attended Dana Hall in 1926, where she did well in athletics. After
graduation at Dana Hall in 1928, Brown went onto Hollins College in
Roanoke, Virginia.
Following graduation at Hollins College in 1932, Brown worked in
teaching, and also studied art. It was while working at the Bank Street
Experimental School in New York City that she started writing books for
children. Her first book was When the Wind Blew.
Brown went on to develop her Here and Now stories, and later the Noisy
Book series while employed as editor at William R. Scott Publishing
Company.
In the early 1950s, she wrote several books for the Little Golden Books
series including Mister Dog and Sailor Dog.
In 1952 Brown met James Stillman Rockefeller Jr. at a party, and he
later proposed to her. On 13th November of that year while on a book
tour in France, Brown contracted appendicitis and was taken to a
hospital where she died of complications. She was 42 years old at the
time of her death. |
