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- Birth nameMargaret Applegate Buell
- Margaret Buell Wilder was born on April 4, 1904 in Newark, Ohio, USA. Margaret Buell was a writer, known for A Stolen Life (1946), Pirates of Monterey (1947) and Young Widow (1946). Margaret Buell died on June 27, 1992 in Monterey, California, USA.
- Her book "Since You Went Away" was based on her newspaper column "Letters to a Soldier from His Wife" for the Dayton (OH) Journal Herald. Like the heroine of "Since You Went Away", Wilder was raising two teenage daughters and taking in boarders to make ends meet while her husband, Donald, was serving in Europe during World War II.
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