Thursday, January 31, 2008

Mystery author Margaret Truman, R.I.P. 1924-2008

Margaret Truman Daniel, who was the only child of President Truman and his wife, Bess, and who forged successive careers as a concert singer, an actress, a high-profile wife and mother, and a prolific biographer and mystery novelist, died Tuesday, January 29th, 2008. She was 83.

See the full obit and biography in: The L.A. Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.

The libraries have Truman's "Capital Crimes" mystery series, from 1980's "Murder in the White House" [1980] to "Murder on K Street" [2007], as well as as 1969 "White House Pets", her 1973 biography of her father, and her 1976 book "Women of Courage."

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