Both parents traced their American ancestry to pre-Revolutionary War Virginia, where Robert’s forebears, in particular, had flourished in church and government service. Her mother, born Maude Johnson, had been Robert’s childhood playmate in Kirkwood. Her father, Robert Bruce Brown, was an executive of the American Manufacturing Company, makers of rope and bagging for the maritime trade.
In a many-faceted, brief, but remarkable career, Margaret Wise Brown pioneered in the writing of books for the nursery school ages authored more than one hundred volumes including the classic Runaway Bunny (1942) and Goodnight Moon (1947) served as a bridge between the worlds of publishing, progressive education, and the experimental arts of the 1930s and 1940s and did much to make children’s literature a vital creative enterprise in her own time and afterward.īorn in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, New York, on May 23, 1910, Brown grew up the second of three children in suburban Beechurst, Long Island.
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