Margaret Larkin

Margaret Larkin
BornJuly 7, 1899
Las Vegas, New Mexico
DiedMay 7, 1967
Mexico City, Mexico
Occupationwriter, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher, and union activist
NationalityAmerican
Period1922-1967
Genrefiction, non-fiction
Notable worksThe Six Days of Yad Mordechai
Seven shares in a Gold Mine
Singing Cowboy
Notable awardsKansas Authors' Club Poetry Prize
David Belasco Cup
Samuel French Prize
SpouseListon Oak
Albert Maltz
RelativesMira Larkin

Margaret Larkin (July 7, 1899 – May 7, 1967) was an American writer, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher, journalist and union activist.

She wrote The Six Days of Yad Mordechai on a kibbutz in Israel and its stand against the Egyptian Army in 1948, 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.