Margaret Truman (1924–2008)
Forfatter af Harry S. Truman
Om forfatteren
Mary Margaret Truman, daughter of President Harry S. Truman, was born on February 17, 1924 in Independence, Missouri. She graduated from George Washington University in 1946. She was also known as Margaret Truman or Margaret Daniel. She was an American singer who later became the successful author vis mere of a series of murder mysteries and a number of works on U.S. First Ladies and First Families, including a biography of her father, President Harry S. Truman. The only child of Harry Truman and First Lady Bess Truman; she was called "Margaret" for most of her life. Truman made her concert debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1947 and her first television appearance on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town. She substituted for Edward R. Murrow on Person to Person, and later had her own radio shows (Weekday in the 1950s and Authors in the News in the 1960s). She was active with organizations such as the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation and the Truman Centennial Committee. She published her first book, Souvenir: Margaret Truman's Own Story in 1956. She also wrote a series of mysteries set at historic locations in Washington, D. C. She died on January 29, 2008 following a brief illness. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Serier
Værker af Margaret Truman
Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman (1709) — Redaktør — 288 eksemplarer
The President's House: A First Daughter Shares the History and Secrets of the World's Most Famous Home (2003) 211 eksemplarer
Margaret Truman Three Complete Mysteries: Murder at the National Cathedral / Murder at the Kennedy Center / Murder in… (1994) 51 eksemplarer
Margaret Truman's Murder on the Metro: A Capital Crimes Novel (Capital Crimes, 31) (2021) 20 eksemplarer
Capital Crimes: Murder in the Supreme Court / Murder in the CIA / Murder in the House (2005) 16 eksemplarer
Margaret Truman Thrillers: Murder in the Supreme Court, Murder on Embassy Row, Murder at the FBI (Capital Crimes) (2018) 2 eksemplarer
Murder in the White House and unknown number and titles 2 eksemplarer
MURDER IN THE WHITE HOUSE-MURDER AT THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL-ON THE POTOMAC-AT THE PENTAGON-AT THE KENNEDY CENTER-MURDER… (1995) 1 eksemplar
Heart of War 1 eksemplar
Murder Outside the Beltway 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Truman Daniel, Mary Margaret
- Andre navne
- Truman, Margaret
Daniel, Margaret - Fødselsdato
- 1924-02-17
- Dødsdag
- 2008-01-29
- Begravelsessted
- Truman Library and Museum, Independence, MO, USA
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Independence, Missouri, USA
- Dødssted
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, USA
Washington, D.C., USA - Uddannelse
- George Washington University
- Erhverv
- singer
actor
radio host
pianist
mystery writer - Relationer
- Daniel, Clifton (husband)
Daniel, Clifton Truman (son)
Truman, Harry S. (father) - Organisationer
- Pi Beta Phi
- Kort biografi
- Margaret Truman was the daughter of President Harry S Truman and his wife Bess Truman. She graduated from George Washington University with a B.A. in history. She took vocal lessons and performed as a singer on stage, radio, and television until the mid-1950s. In 1956, she married Clifton Daniel, a reporter and then editor of The New York Times, with whom she had four sons. She wrote a number of works on U.S. First Ladies and First Families, including a biography of her father (1973). Later she was the author of a successful series of murder mysteries published from 1980 to 2011.
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Murder on Capitol Hill (Capital Crimes Book 2) af Margaret Truman
I have read a few other of Margaret Truman's mysteries but this second entry in the series had somehow escaped me until now. Well done and now I can cross Washington D.C. off my Read-the-USA mystery challenge :)
When the Secretary of State is murdered in the West Wing of the White House, the President appoints Ron Fairbanks, special counsel to the president, to investigate. This was an interesting mystery, full of the political intrigue of Washington, DC. The book was published in 1980, and there were times that something did strike me as a bit dated, but the story itself holds up. Ron is an interesting main protagonist and Truman has real experience with the ins and outs of the Washington political scene (at least during the time when she wrote the book). It looks like the next book in the series has a different main investigator so I am interested to see if there is any link in the series beyond Washington politics.… (mere)
Paul Singletary, brillante clérigo de la Catedral Nacional de Washington, aparece asesinado en una capilla de ésta.
A pesar de sus reticencias, Mack Smith se ve obligado a intervenir en el caso por amistad: Singletary había oficiado, poco antes de su muerte, el matrimonio de Smith.
En su investigación, éste logra descubrir dos importantes derivaciones: la primera, que Singletary era un verdadero Don Juan; la segunda, que la organización pacifista de la que era activo miembro presentaba muchos puntis oscuros.
¿Amor o política?… (mere)
A pesar de sus reticencias, Mack Smith se ve obligado a intervenir en el caso por amistad: Singletary había oficiado, poco antes de su muerte, el matrimonio de Smith.
En su investigación, éste logra descubrir dos importantes derivaciones: la primera, que Singletary era un verdadero Don Juan; la segunda, que la organización pacifista de la que era activo miembro presentaba muchos puntis oscuros.
¿Amor o política?… (mere)
I'm not a mystery fan,and this book didn't change that. My bookclub recently read about the author's father, so I thought I would try one of this series.I'm familiar with DC, so the setting worked for me.
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