Margaret Sanborn
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[edit] Introduction
Margaret Sanborn (1915 - ), an American writer, biographer of Robert E. Lee and Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemens)
[edit] History
Margaret Sanborn was born in 1915 and resides (2004) in Mill Valley, California.
Sanborn came to prominence in 1966 at the publication of Robert E. Lee: A Portrait [1807-1861], the first volume of her two volume biography of the Confederate general which won critical acclaim.
In an interview given in 1997 at the Library of Congress, Sanborn relates the story of how she came to be the writer of the final volume in the Rivers of America Series, The American, River of El Dorado
In 2004 Sanborn received a Milley Award for contributions to the arts from the Mill Valley Art Commission.
[edit] Partial Bibliography
Non-Fiction
Robert E. Lee. A Portrait. [1807-1861] (J. B. Lippincott and Company, Philadelphia & New York, 1966)
Robert E. Lee: the Complete Man 1861-1870 (J. B. Lippincott and Company, Philadelphia & New York, 1967)
The American: River of El Dorado (Holt, Rinehart and Winston., New York, 1974)
The Grand Tetons (G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1978)
Yosemite – Its Discovery, Its Wonders & Its People (Random House, New York, 1981)
Mark Twain: The Bachelor Years: A Biography (Doubleday, New York, 1990.)
