Margaret Landon

Novelist, Author

1903 – 1993

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Who was Margaret Landon?

Margaret Landon was an American writer best remembered for Anna and the King of Siam, her best-selling 1944 novel of the life of Anna Leonowens which eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into more than twenty languages. In 1950, Landon sold the musical play rights to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who created the musical The King and I from her book. A later work, Never Dies the Dream, appeared in 1949.

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Born
Sep 7, 1903
Somers
Also known as
  • Margaret Dorothea Mortenson
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Wheaton College
Lived in
  • Alexandria
  • Wisconsin
  • Evanston
  • Washington, D.C.
Died
Dec 4, 1993
Alexandria

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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