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Margaret Larkin (July 7, 1899 – May 7, 1967) was an American writer, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher, journalist and union activist. She wrote ''The Hand of Mordechai'' on a kibbutz in Israel, ''Seven Shares in a Gold Mine'' about a murder conspiracy in Mexico, and the ''Singing Cowboy'', a collection of Western folk songs. She won awards for her poem ''Goodbye—To My Mother'' and her play ''El Cristo''. ==Life== Larkin was born on July 7, 1899 in Las Vegas, New Mexico to parents from English and Scottish descent.〔 She studied at the University of Kansas.〔("Margaret Larkin, writer, 67, dead" ). ''New York Times'' May 11, 1967.〕 In 1922 she won the Poetry Prize of the Kansas Author Club. After moving to the East Coast, she married Liston Oak and became a trade union activist.〔 In 1926 she wrote the titles of the silent film ''The Passaic Textile Strike''. In the thirties she was active as a singer/songwriter and composer of folk songs.〔 After divorcing her first husband she met writer Albert Maltz in 1935. Maltz was 9 years younger. They married in 1937.〔 Maltz was blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten due to his refusal to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee whether he was a member of the American Communist Party.〔 Larkin, her husband, and their two children moved to Mexico City in 1951.〔 In 1964 they were officially divorced, after Maltz had already returned to the United States.〔 Larkin assisted anthropologist Oscar Lewis in the research and writing of ''La Vida - A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture Of Poverty'' (1966).〔 Her last book was ''The Hand of Mordechai'', on kibbutz Yad Mordechai around the Israeli War of Independence. It was published in Hebrew (1966), Yiddish (1967), English (1968), German (1970), and Russian (197?). Larkin was represented by literary agent Barthold Fles.〔 She died in Mexico City on May 7, 1967, aged 67.〔 Her granddaughter, Mira Larkin, is an actress and production manager.〔(Internet media database )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margaret Larkin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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