Margaret Larkin | |
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| Born | July 7, 1899 Las Vegas, New Mexico |
| Died | May 7, 1967 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation | writer, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher, and union activist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1922-1967 |
| Genre | fiction, non-fiction |
| Notable works | The Hand of Mordechai Seven shares in a Gold Mine Singing Cowboy |
| Notable awards | Kansas Authors' Club Poetry Prize David Belasco Cup Samuel French Prize |
| Spouse | Liston Oak Albert Maltz |
| Relatives | Mira Larkin |
Margaret Larkin (July 7, 1899 – May 7, 1967) was an American writer, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher, journalist and union activist.
She wrote The Hand of Mordechai on a kibbutz in Israel and its stand against the Egyptian Army in 1948, Seven Shares in a Gold Mine about a murder conspiracy in Mexico, and the Singing Cowboy, a collection of Western folk songs.[1] She won awards for her poem Goodbye—To My Mother and her play El Cristo.
In 1931, she published some of the songs she heard in the West in Singing Cowboy, which is still viewed by scholars as an important collection.