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Margaret Landon

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American writer, missionary (1903-1993)

United StatesWritersLived 1903 to 1993 · aged 90
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Margaret Landon was an American writer known for Anna and the King of Siam, her best-selling 1944 novel of the life of Anna Leonowens which eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into more than twenty languages.

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Margaret Landon was an American writer known for Anna and the King of Siam, her best-selling 1944 novel of the life of Anna Leonowens which eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into more than twenty languages. In 1950, 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 1949.

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United States
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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deceased
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Lived 1903 to 1993 · aged 90
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16 languages

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