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Marian Cannon Schlesinger (September 13, 1912 – October 14, 2017) was an American artist and author.[1]

Marian Cannon Schlesinger
Born	Marian Cannon (1912-09-13)September 13, 1912 Franklin, New Hampshire
Died	October 14, 2017(2017-10-14) (aged 105) Cambridge, Massachusetts
Alma mater	Radcliffe College
Occupation	Artist, author
Spouse(s)	Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1940–1970; divorced); 4 children)

She published two volumes of her memoir, Snatched from Oblivion: A Cambridge Memoir and I Remember: A Life of Politics, Painting and People, as well as five children's books, which she also illustrated.[2] She painted landscapes and portraits and spent time in China to study art.[3]

Personal life

She was a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a graduate of Radcliffe College. Her mother was feminist reformer and novelist Cornelia James Cannon, and her father was Walter Bradford Cannon, a professor at Harvard University. She was married for thirty years to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.; their daughter, Christina Schlesinger, is a painter. She died on October 14, 2017 at the age of 105 years, 31 days in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[4][5]

Works

• San Bao and his Adventures in Peking, 1939; 2d. edition Cambridge MA: Gale Hill Books, 1998.
• Children of the Fiery Mountain, New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1940.
• Snatched From Oblivion: A Cambridge Memoir, Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1979.
• I Remember: A Life of Politics, Painting and People, Cambridge MA: TidePool Press, 2012.

References

External links

• "Marian Cannon Schlesinger Remembers", radcliffe.harvard.edu; accessed December 9, 2016.
• New York Times obituary, October 10, 2017.

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