Margaret Landon

Margaret Landon (September 7, 1903 – December 4, 1993) was an American writer best remembered 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 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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    Ah tell me not that memory
    Sheds gladness o’er the past;
    What is recalled by faded flowers
    Save that they did not last?
    —Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838)