Scott hired her as his first editor in 1938. Impressed by Brown's "here and now" style, W. Bank Street promoted a new approach to children's education and literature, emphasizing the real world and the "here and now." This philosophy influenced Brown's work she was also inspired by the poet Gertrude Stein, whose literary style influenced Brown's own writing.īrown's first published children's book was When the Wind Blew, published in 1937 by Harper & Brothers. While working at the Bank Street Experimental School in New York City she started writing books for children. in English from Hollins in 1932, Brown worked as a teacher and also studied art. After graduation in 1928, Brown went on to Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia.įollowing her graduation with a B.A. She began attending Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1926, where she did well in athletics. In 1925 she attended The Kew-Forest School. In 1923 she attended Chateau Brilliantmont boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland, while her parents were living in India and Canterbury, Connecticut. She was the granddaughter of politician Benjamin Gratz Brown. Brown was the middle child of three whose parents suffered from an unhappy marriage, in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. She is the daughter of Robert Bruce Brown and Maude Johnson. Margaret Wise Brown was born in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States.
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