by Amy Gary
Kahn, Ely, Jr.
Kentucky
Lexington
Liberty Hall
Montrose
Key, Francis Scott
Kon-Tiki
Lafayette, Marquis de
Lee, Gypsy Rose
Leventhal, Al 82
Liberty horses
Library Journal
Life
Little Fireman, The
Little Red Schoolhouse
Long Island
Lyseck, Bryan
Maine
Bar Harbor
childhood
Le Selva
Long Cove
Rockland
Rockport
Sunshine Cottage
Vinalhaven
Man o’ War
Maryland
Fort McHenry
Massachusetts
Boston
Greylock Mountain
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wellesley
Mencken, H. L.
McCormick, Tony
McCullough, John
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Mickey Mouse
Missouri
Kirkwood
Mitchell, Lucy Sprague
New York
Beechhurst
Bronx
Brooklyn
Great Neck
Long Island
Times Hall
New York City
Algonquin Hotel
Broadway
Carnegie Hall
Central Park
East River
Gracie Square
Madison Square Gardens
Manhattan
New York Public Library, The
Plaza Hotel, The
Upper East Side
Waldorf Astoria
Washington Square Park
York Avenue
New Yorker, The
New York Journal-American
New York Philharmonic, The
New York Times, The
Nordstrom, Ursula
Oelrichs, Blanche. See Strange, Michael
Ogle, Lucille
Panama
Paris Exposition
Paris, France
Philadelphia Story, The
Picasso, Pablo
Guernica
Pilpel, Harriet
Pine Manor
Preston, Elizabeth
Prévert, Jacques
Publishers Weekly
Random House
Rauch, Basil
Rauch, Roberta Brown
Red Cross
Rey, H. A.
Ricci, Pietro
Ripley, Louis
Rockefeller, James Stillman, Jr.
Rockefeller, Liv
Rockefeller, Stillman
Scott, Etherl
Scott, William
Shakespeare
Tempest, The
Shaw, Charles
Show Boat
Simon & Schuster
Slobodkina, Esphyr
Smart Set
Stein, Gertrude
Making of Americans, The
World is Round, The
Steinbeck, John
Story Parade
Strange, Michael
death
illness
Switzerland
Alps
Lake Geneva
Lausanne
Theosophical Society
Thomas, Leonard
Thomas, Robin
Thurston, Jayne
“Time of the Cherries, The”
Titanic
Torp, Liv Coucheron
Twain, Mark
Tweed, Harrison
Universal Pictures
Vanderbilts
Varney, Walter
Vassar College
Vermont
Vinalhaven
Virginia
Abingdon
Aldie
Charlottesville
News Leader
Roanoke
Tinker Mountain
University of Virginia
Walt Disney Studios
Wagstaff, Dorothy “Dot”
Wars
American Civil War
Great War
War of 1812, The
World War II
Weisgard, Leonard
Caldecott Medal
Westerly Public Library
Who’s Who in America
Wigmore Hall
Wilcox, Bob
Wilder, Alec
William R. Scott Inc.
Williams, Garth
Wolfe, Thomas
Woolf, Virginia
Writers Laboratory
Yogananda
Young People’s Records
About the Author
In 1990, AMY GARY discovered hundreds of unpublished works by Margaret Wise Brown in Margaret’s sister’s attic. Since then, Gary has catalogued, edited, and researched all of Margaret’s writings. She has been covered in Vanity Fair, in Entertainment Weekly, and on NPR, among other media outlets. She was formerly the director of publishing at Lucasfilm and headed the publishing department at Pixar studios.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Foreword by James Stillman Rockefeller Jr.
A Note from the Author
Prologue: 1950
One: 1910–1914
Two: 1917–1923
Three: 1924–1927
Four: 1928
Five: 1929–1932
Six: 1934–1935
Seven: 1936–1937
Eight: 1938
Nine: 1939
Ten: 1940
Eleven: 1941
Twelve: 1942
Thirteen: 1943
Fourteen: 1944
Fifteen: 1945–1946
Sixteen: 1947
Seventeen: 1948
Eighteen: 1949
Nineteen: 1950
Twenty: 1951
Twenty-one: 1952
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Sources
Index
About the Author
Copyright
IN THE GREAT GREEN ROOM. Copyright © 2016 by Amy Gary. All rights reserved. For information, address Flatiron Books, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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First Edition: January 2017