Margaret Cheney (author)
Margaret Cheney was an American nonfiction author and biographer.
Cheney was originally from Eugene, Oregon, where she was born in 1921. She was a student at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, and worked as an editor for the Associated Press. She died in 2010.
Selected works
Her books include:- A Brief History of the University of California
- Meanwhile Farm.
- The Co-Ed Killer: A Study of the Murders, Mutilations, and Matricide of Edmund Kemper III, on Edmund Kemper. Updated as Why?: The Serial Killer in America.
- Tesla: Man Out of Time, biography of inventor Nikola Tesla. Translated by Gregorio Cantera into Spanish as Nikola Tesla: El Genio al que Robaron la Luz.
- Tesla: Master of Lightning.
- Midnight At Mabel's: The Mabel Mercer Story, biography of cabaret singer Mabel Mercer.