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In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown Audiobook
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Children and parents everywhere love Goodnight Moon, but few know its author, Margaret Wise Brown. Quirky and wildly imaginative, she threw wild parties and lived extravagantly off of her royalties. In 1990 author Amy Gary discovered Margaret’s unpublished manuscripts. Since then, Gary has pored over these works and her book captures the spirit of Brown’s unrivaled talent.
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“Thanks to Any Gary’s insightful biography…now I see a colorful, vibrant woman who had complicated love affairs, a unique ability to see the world through a child’s eyes, and who was constantly recreating life on her own terms.”
— Amazon.com, editorial review
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“In the Great Green Room animates for readers an extraordinary life devoted to satisfying every curiosity and deepening every meaning.”
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“The unconventional life of Margaret Wise Brown…is portrayed with sympathy and novelistic detail in this page-turning biography.”
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“Gary adds to the portrait we have of Brown with never-before-seen materials she uncovered in 1990, including manuscripts, diaries, and letters.”
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“A true discovery….A lively portrait of a woman writer and editor who deserves to be widely known for her work.”
— Irene Gammel, author of Looking for Anne of Green Gables
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A Library Journal Audio-in-Advance Pick for January 2017
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A BookPage Top Pick for January 2017
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month for January 2017
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About Amy Gary
Amy Gary has cataloged, edited, and researched all of Margaret Wise Brown’s writings for the last twenty-five years. Amy’s work has been covered in Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, and the Wall Street Journal. She was formerly the director of publishing at Lucasfilm and headed the publishing department at Pixar Animation studios.
About Bernadette Dunne
Bernadette Dunne is the winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and has twice been nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, and has appeared at the Kennedy Center and off Broadway.