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Books I Remember: A Life of Politics, Painting and People, Snatched from Oblivion: A Cambridge Memoir | ||
American artist and author Marian Cannon Schlesinger Died at 105
Marian Cannon Schlesinger (born September 13, 1912) is an artist and author.
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She has published two volumes of her memoir, Snatched from Oblivion: A Cambridge Memoir and I Remember: A Life of Politics, Painting and People, as well as five children's books, which she also illustrated. She painted landscapes and portraits and spent time in China to study art.
Personal life
She is a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a graduate of Radcliffe College. Her mother was feminist reformer and novelist Cornelia James Cannon, and her father was Walter Bradford Cannon, a professor at Harvard University. She was for a time married to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.; their daughter, Christina Schlesinger, is a painter.
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