She Is Best Known for Goodnight Moon, but Her Life Was Full of Color, Too.

[elleng]

'There’s no way to document this, obviously, but it seems safe to venture that millions of people in the world have read Margaret Wise Brown’s books without realizing they’ve done so. Mention her name and you’ll get lots of blank stares; mention her best-known work, “Goodnight Moon,” and suddenly the tumblers snap into place: Oh right, her.

In real life, Brown was anything but forgettable. She was gorgeous, vivacious and luminous, a firefly in Hepburn slacks. She had stormy relationships with both men and women. One of her favorite pastimes was beagling, a sport that requires chasing hares on foot. She was partial to furs; she preferred writing with quill pens; in her Greenwich Village apartment, she held festive parties for the Birdbrain Club, her friends’ answer to the Algonquin Round Table.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/books/a-sleepy-biography-for-the-author-of-goodnight-moon.html?

[okwmember]

1. Colbert noted this in his monologue a couple of weeks ago.

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The Margaret Wise Brown discussion starts around the 8:30 mark.

[elleng]

2. HA!