Margaret Landon
Margaret Landon (born September 7, 1903 in Somers , Wisconsin , as Margaret Dorothea Mortenson ; † December 4, 1993 in Alexandria , Virginia ) was an American writer , who mainly through her novel Anna and the King of Siam about life by Anna Leonowens became famous.
She was one of three daughters in a devout Methodist family . She then moved to Evanston , Illinois , where she attended high school . In 1925 she graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton , Illinois. She taught for a year and then married Kenneth Landon, whom she had met in Wheaton. In 1927 both went to Thailand as Presbyterian missionaries .
Landon had three children and ran a missionary school in Trang . She read a lot about the country and found out about Anna Leonowens . When the family returned to America in 1937, they began to write. She moved to Washington, DC in 1942 when her husband decided to join the State Department as a Southeast Asia advisor.
Her novel about Leonowens became an instant bestseller when it was published in 1944. However, a later work on her own experiences, Never Dies the Dream from 1949, did not have nearly as much success.
Web links
- Literature by and about Margaret Landon in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Landon, Margaret |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mortenson, Margaret Dorothea (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Somers , Wisconsin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1993 |
| Place of death | Alexandria , Virginia |