Marian Cannon Schlesinger (September 13, 1912 – October 14, 2017) was an American artist and author. She 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

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to study art.

Personal life

She was a native of

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, and a graduate of

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. Her mother was feminist reformer and novelist

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, and her father was

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, a professor at

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. She was married for thirty years to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.; their daughter,

Christina Schlesinger Christina Schlesinger (born November 19, 1946) is an American painter and muralist. Daughter of historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., she sought independence from her family's fame, practiced “protest art”, and came out as a lesbian. She made ...

, is a painter. She died on October 14, 2017 at the age of in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Works

* ''San Bao and his Adventures in Peking, 1''939; 2d. edition Cambridge MA: Gale Hill Books, 1998. * ''Children of the Fiery Mountain'', New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1940. * ''Snatched From Oblivion: A Cambridge Memoir,'' Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1979. * ''I Remember: A Life of Politics, Painting and People,'' Cambridge MA: TidePool Press, 2012.

References

External links

"Marian Cannon Schlesinger Remembers"
radcliffe.harvard.edu; accessed December 9, 2016.

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