Margaret landon biography

          Margaret Landon was....

          Margaret Landon (September 7, – December 4, ) was an American writer known for Anna and the King of Siam, her best-selling novel of the life.

        1. Margaret Landon (September 7, – December 4, ) was an American writer known for Anna and the King of Siam, her best-selling novel of the life.
        2. Margaret Landon was an American writer known for Anna and the King of Siam, her best-selling novel of the life of Anna Leonowens which eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into more than twenty languages.
        3. Margaret Landon was.
        4. Margaret Landon (September 7, – December 4, ) was an American writer who became famous for Anna and the King of Siam, her novel of the life of.
        5. Margaret Landon () lived in the Kingdom of Siam (now Thailand) for ten years.
        6. Margaret Landon

          American writer known for 'Anna and the King of Siam' (–)

          Margaret Landon

          Born

          Margaret Dorothea Mortenson


          ()September 7,

          Somers, Wisconsin, U.S.

          DiedDecember 4, () (aged&#;90)

          Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.

          EducationWheaton College, Education (B.A., )
          Occupation(s)Writer, Presbyterian missionary
          SpouseKenneth Landon
          Children4

          Margaret Landon (September 7, – December 4, ) was an American writer known for Anna and the King of Siam, her best-selling novel of the life of Anna Leonowens which eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into more than twenty languages.

          In , 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

          Life

          Born Margaret Dorothea Mortenson to Annenus Duabus "A.D." and Adelle Johanna Mortenson (née Estburg) in Somers, Wisconsin, she was one of th