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Margo Peters is a noted American author of biographies and novels, including biographies of Charlotte Bronte, Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the Drews and Barrymores, May Sarton, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

Birth
Margot Peters was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, May 13, 1933.

Career
Peters' first book was her Masters thesis,   

Awards
Won the Friends of American Writers award for best work of prose in 1975 for Unquiet Soul: A Biography of Charlotte Bronte and 1985. Won Banta Awards in 1981 and 1985, for Bernard Shaw and the Actresses and for Mrs. Pat: The Life of Mrs. Patrick Campbell, respectively.

Biographies

 * Charlotte Brontë: Style in the Novel. Madison: University of Wisconsin Pres: 1973.


 * Unquiet Soul: A Biography of Charlotte Brontë New York: Doubleday, 1975. ((London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. Paris: Editions Stock, 1979. Reprint New York & London, 1986, 1987. Paris: Editions Stock, 1979.))


 * Bernard Shaw and the Actresses. New York: Doubleday, 1980.


 * Mrs. Pat: The Biography of Mrs. Patrick Campbell. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984; London: The Bodley Head, 1984; Hamish Hamilton, 1985.


 * The House of Barrymore. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.


 * May Sarton: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997; Ballentine, 1998.


 * Design for Living: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. New York: Knopf, 2003

Other Works

 * Wild Justice. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995. Published in paperback as Most Wanted, 1996.