Margaret Wise Brown
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Margaret Wise Brown (23 May 1910 - 13 November 1952) was a United States author of children's literature, which include
Brown was born in
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 1947, Brown wrote The Little Island under the pseudonym Golden McDonald (illustrated by
In the early 1950s, she wrote several books for the
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 Nice, 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.
SONY/BMG will release THE RUNAWAY BUNNY: A Concert piece for Violin, Reader and Orchestra March 2006. Based on Ms. Brown's book, it is narrated by Brooke Shields. The violin solo is performed by Ittai Shapira and Barry Wordsworth conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The piece was composed by Glen Roven.
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- "Brown, Margaret Wise 1910-1952." Something About the Author. 100:35-39. 1999