Margaret Wise Brown
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Margaret Wise Brown was an American writer of children's books, including Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, both illustrated by Clement Hurd. She has been called "the laureate of the nursery" for
Brown, c. 1940s-1950s
Michael Strange
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Blanche Marie Louise Oelrichs was an American poet, playwright, and theatre actress. Oelrichs first used the masculine pen name Michael Strange to publish her poetry in order to distance her society r
Margaret Wise Brown
…long-running affair with William Gaston, and had a summer romance with Preston Schoyer. In the summer of 1940, Brown began a long-term relationship with Blanche Oelrichs (pen name Michael Strange), poet/playwright, actress, and the former wife of John Barrymore. The relationship, which began as a mentoring one, eventually…
Blanche Oelrichs
Blanche Oelrichs, between 1910 and 1915
The monument of Blanche Oelrichs in Woodlawn Cemetery