Margaret Parton (1915 – 1981) was an American author, critic, and journalist. Her parents were journalists, prominent in their day: Lemuel F. Parton, and Mary Field Parton.[1] Her career was long and eventful, including a great deal of crime and foreign reporting, and contact with many influential personalities in literary, political and legal affairs.[1] From the mid 1940s, she was a beat writer for the New York Herald Tribune in Asia, working first in India and later in Japan.[2]
Her three autobiographical works were Laughter on the Hill, 1945, which dealt with her Bohemian experiences in San Francisco; The Leaf and the Flame describing her experience as a journalist in India at the time of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi; and her final autobiography: Journey Through A Lighted Room 1973[1] An extensive collection of her papers is accessible at the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives: Margaret Parton papers.[3]
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edit- ^ a b c "Archives West: Margaret Parton papers, 1885-1981". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org.
- ^ "Margaret Parton, Ex-Reporter for New York Herald Tribune". The New York Times. 12 August 1981.
- ^ "Collection: Margaret Parton papers | Special Collections and University Archives Collections Database". scua.uoregon.edu.
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