A review by meghan111
In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown by Amy Gary

3.0

From the late 1930s to the early 1950s, Margaret Wise Brown wrote and published dozens of children's books, including [b: Goodnight Moon|32929|Goodnight Moon|Margaret Wise Brown|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1439223893s/32929.jpg|1086867]. Also from the 1930s to the 1950s? The Great Depression. Hitler. World War II. And yet this historical biography seemed to me totally ahistorical, rarely mentioning larger events, and completely uninterested in interrogating privilege and wealth. It often seemed like a transcription of Margaret Wise Brown's journals with little to no interpretation. MWB's long love affair with poet and actress Michael Strange was one of the most interesting aspects. I also enjoyed the excerpts from her works and the random detail that at one point she completely decorated a small house in furs, since it had no heat.