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Margaret Cousins (January 26, 1905 - July 30, 1996), was an American author and editor.

Cousins was born in Munday, Texas, and earned a B. A. degree in English at the University of Texas in Austin in 1926. After college, she worked in Dallas as an editor for The Southern Pharmaceutical Journal, published by her father. In 1937, she moved to New York City, where she was an editor at the women's magazine Pictorial Review, which, however, ceased publication shortly after her arrival. She then got a job writing adversiting copy for the Hearst Corporation and in 1942 was hired as associate editor for the Hearst-owned Good Housekeeping, becoming managing editor in 1945. In 1958, she left to become managing editor of McCall's, but resigned when she was passed over for promotion to editor-in-chief in 1961. She was hired as a senior editor by Doubleday, and in 1971 became fiction editor of Ladies' Home Journal. In 1973, Cousins retired and moved to San Antonio, Texas, where she lived until her death in 1991.