Margaret Seymour Carpenter

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Margaret Seymour Carpenter (April 3, 1893 - March 30, 1987) was the writer of the novel Experiment Perilous (Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1943), a New York Times Bestseller in 1943. The novel was produced by RKO Radio Pictures as a film of the same name, Experiment Perilous , starring Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, and Paul Lukas. She was the daughter of George Rice Carpenter and his wife Mary Seymour. [1] She married on May 2, 1916, in New York City to Henry Barber Richardson of Boston, Massachusetts. [2]

Carpenter died March 30, 1987, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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References

  1. John W. Leonard, ed.: Who's Who in New York City and State, Third Edition, New York: L. R. Hamersley & Co., 1907, p. 247.
  2. The New York Times, May 4, 1916.