Rumer Godden

Rumer Godden OBE
Rumer Godden, 1940s
Born	Margaret Rumer Godden (1907-12-10)10 December 1907 Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Died	8 November 1998(1998-11-08) (aged 90) Moniaive, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Occupation	Novelist, poet and children's story writer
Notable works	Black Narcissus, The River, The Greengage Summer, The Doll's House
Notable awards	Whitbread Award for Children's Literature (1972)
Spouse	Laurence Sinclair Foster (1934–1948) James Haynes Dixon (1949–1973, his death)
Children	2

Margaret Rumer Godden OBE (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998^[1]) was a British author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films,^[2] most notably Black Narcissus in 1947 and The River in 1951.

A few of her works were co-written with her elder sister, novelist Jon Godden, including Two Under the Indian Sun, a memoir of the Goddens' childhood in a region of India now part of Bangladesh.