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 China, where she visited her sister, to study art.

Personal life

She was a native of

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, and a graduate of

Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879. In 1999, it was fully incorporated into Harvard Colle ...

. Her mother was feminist reformer and novelist Cornelia James Cannon, and her father was

Walter Bradford Cannon Walter Bradford Cannon (October 19, 1871 – October 1, 1945) was an American physiologist, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. He coined the term " fight or flight response", and developed the theory ...

, a professor at

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. She was sister of Wilma Cannon Fairbank, a historian of Chinese art. She was married for thirty years to

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. ( ; born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual. The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and a ...

; their daughter Christina Schlesinger is a painter. She died on October 14, 2017, at the age of in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Works

*
San Bao and his Adventures in Peking
', 1939; 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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