Margaret Cheney (author)
American nonfiction author
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Margaret Cheney (1921–2010) was an American nonfiction author and biographer.
Cheney was originally from Eugene, Oregon,[1] where she was born in 1921.[2] She was a student at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, and worked as an editor for the Associated Press.[1] She died in 2010.[2]
Selected works
Her books include:[3]
- A Brief History of the University of California (University of California, Berkeley, Office of University Relations, 1974; 2nd ed., with Patricia A. Pelfrey, University of California Press, 2004)[4]
- Meanwhile Farm (Celestial Arts, 1975).
- The Co-Ed Killer: A Study of the Murders, Mutilations, and Matricide of Edmund Kemper III, on Edmund Kemper (Walker, 1976). Updated as Why?: The Serial Killer in America (R & E Publishers, 1992).[5]
- Tesla: Man Out of Time (Prentice Hall, 1981), biography of inventor Nikola Tesla.[6] Translated by Gregorio Cantera into Spanish as Nikola Tesla: El Genio al que Robaron la Luz (Turner, 2010).[7]
- Tesla: Master of Lightning (Barnes & Noble Publishing, 1999, with Robert Uth).[8]
- Midnight At Mabel's: The Mabel Mercer Story, biography of cabaret singer Mabel Mercer (New Voyage Publishing, 2000).
