Margaret Wise Brown (23 May 1910 - 13 November 1952) was a United States author of children's literature, which include Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny.

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.

See Related

• "Brown, Margaret Wise 1910-1952." Something About the Author. 100:35-39. 1999.

External links

• The Margaret Wise Brown Web Resource