She may also have been a little distracted by her own turbulent love life.īrown, who never married although was briefly engaged, had a long-term affair with married man William Gaston, a summer romance with fellow author Preston Schoyer and in 1940, began a long-term relationship with Blanche Oelrichs - a feminist poet playwright, actress, and the former wife of John Barrymore.
I won't let anybody get away with anything just because he's little.' The writer never had children herself, and once told a Life reporter in 1946, 'I don't especially like children. She also harbored a deep dislike of children, her main target audience. Her most famous work, Goodnight Moon (pictured) sold more than 14 million copies, making her one of the best selling American children's authors ever Millions of parents have relied on Margaret Wise Brown classic books for a bedtime story for their little ones.
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