At the same time, she had a need for privacy that was to be characteristic throughout her life.īrown attended schools on Long Island until her teen years when she and her sister were sent to the Château Brillantmont School in Switzerland where she developed 'a touch of the cosmopolitan,' and then to Dana Hall in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Even as a child, Brown delighted in making up stories to tell her friends. Brown later claimed that she was too busy as a child to remember many books that she read, although she did recall that The Song of Roland, Black Beauty, Peter Rabbit, and Snow White all seemed true to her, and that Aladdin was the most exciting of all fairy tales. When Margaret was quite young, her family moved to Whitestone Landing on Long Island, where she had woods and beaches to explore, as well as the company of dozens of animals. Margaret Wise Brown was born in Brooklyn, New York, the middle child of Robert Bruce Brown, a successful businessman, and Maude Johnson Brown. Half of her books are still in print, some have entertained three generations of readers. Their responses would influence the book's final form. It was her practice to try out her stories on audiences of young children. Brown's books feature the work of 40 different artists, reflecting her exacting demands that the illustrations be perfectly suited to the text. She was an amazingly creative writer, one who published over 100 of her own books, as well as adaptations, translations, stories, and poems. Margaret Wise Brown once told a publisher that she would write a manuscript for a children's book in 20 minutes-and polish it for a year. Scott Publishers (1937–41) wrote more than 100 books and lyrics for 21 children's recordings, including Goodnight Moon.

Published first book, When the Wind Blew (1937) served on the publications staff of the Bank Street School, New York City served as editor at W.R. Born Margaret Wise Brown on May 23, 1910, in New York City died in Nice, France, on Novemdaughter of Robert Bruce Brown (an executive with the American Manufacturing Company) and Maude Margaret (Johnson) Brown (a homemaker) educated at Château Brillantmont in Switzerland, Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and Hollins College, B.A., 1932 never married no children. Name variations-pseudonyms: Golden McDonald, Juniper Sage, and Timothy Hay.

American author of the classic children's book Goodnight Moon and innovator in children's literature.

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