Author for children Margaret Wise Brown

Margaret Wise Brown

Living place: New York

Birthday: 23-5-1910

Population of US 1910: 92,407,000

Global rank: #65595

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Author for children Margaret Wise Brown profile

Who is Author for children Margaret Wise Brown?
Best known for her children's picture books The Runaway Bunny (1942), Goodnight Moon (1947), and The Kittens Color (1949), she is also known for her rowdy Book series. Her widespread work has been translated into many languages.
Many of her most famous works were illustrated by Clement Hurd.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After earning a bachelor's degree in English from Hollins College (Virginia), she taught in New York City and published her first children's book, When the Wind Blew, in 1937.

Family life info

A native of Brooklyn, New York, she spent part of her childhood at schools in Switzerland and Massachusetts. After a long relationship with actress and writer Blanche Oelrichs (the ex-wife of actor John Barrymore), Brown was engaged to James Stillman Rockefeller, Jr. , but never got the chance to marry him, when she died suddenly in her early forties.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Author for children Margaret Wise Brown?
She and Lois Utz are two American children's writers born in the early twentieth century.

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When was Author for children Margaret Wise Brown born?
Margaret Wise Brown was born in 23-5-1910, death year is , at the age of 114.
Where is Author for children Margaret Wise Brown's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Margaret Wise Brown was born in New York, . is a Author for children, whose Zodiac is Gemini, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dog. Margaret Wise Brown's global rank is 65595 and whose rank is 196 in list of famous Author for children. Population of US in 1910 is about 92,407,000 persons.
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Events in 1910 and 23-5

Events in US in the birth year of Margaret Wise Brown

  • Boy Scouts of America is incorporated.
  • Angel Island, in San Francisco Bay, becomes immigration center for Asians entering U.S.

Birthday Margaret Wise Brown (23-5) in history

  • Day 23-5 year 1430: The heroic French warrior Joanna of Arc was captured by the Burgundians and sold to the British.
  • Day 23-5 year 1788: South Carolina became the 8th state in United States.
  • Day 23-5 year 1830: The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began the first passenger service in the United States.
  • Day 23-5 year 1873: The North West Mounted Police force was formed in Canada. It would later be known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
  • Day 23-5 year 1911: The New York Public Library, at the time the largest marble structure ever built in the United States, was dedicated by President Taft in New York City after 16 years of construction.
  • Day 23-5 year 1934: Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow) were killed in a police shootout.
  • Day 23-5 year 1945: Heinrich Himmler, head of Adolf Hitler’s Gestapo, committed suicide while in prison.
  • Day 23-5 year 1949: The German Federal Republic came into existence.
  • Day 23-5 year 1997: Moderate Mohammad Khatami was elected president of Iran.
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