MARGARET TRUMAN

'Mary Margaret Truman Daniel' (born February 17, 1924 in Independence, Missouri) is an American writer and the author of biographies, books on the White House and several best-selling mystery novels.

Contents

Singer and First Daughter

Writing career and marriage

Current life

Bibliography

Fiction

Non–Fiction

External link

Singer and First Daughter

Margaret is the daughter of 33th president Harry S. Truman and his wife, Bess Truman. She was christened Mary Margaret Truman - Mary for her aunt, Mary Jane Truman, and Margaret for her maternal grandmother, Margaret Gates Wallace. From childhood, she was called Margaret.
In the 1940s, she aspired to be a singer. After graduating from George Washington University and undergoing some classical vocal training, she debuted in a vocal recital on the radio in March 1947. After a performance in December 1950, Washington Post music critic Paul Hume gave her an unfavorable review, resulting in an incident in which President Truman threatened to beat the reviewer, calling Hume an "eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay." Many fathers wrote in support of her father's outburst. Despite the bad press, she performed on the stage, radio and television well into the 1950s.
In 1944, she christened the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), named for her home state. When the ship was recommissioned in 1991, she was a featured speaker at the ceremony.

Writing career and marriage

Truman married ''New York Times'' reporter, and later editor, Clifton Daniel (1912 - 2000) on April 21, 1956, at Trinity Episcopal Church in Independence, Missouri, her mother's birthplace. Their sons are: Clifton Truman Daniel (born 1957), William Wallace Daniel (1959 - 2000), who was killed in a taxi cab collision in New York City, Harrison Gates Daniel (born 1963), and Thomas Washington Daniel (born 1966). Clifton has written and spoken publicly about his grandfather and his experience as the grandchild of a president.
Shortly before her father's death in 1972, Daniel, under her maiden name, published ''Harry S Truman'', a critically acclaimed full length biography of her father. The book extensively used sources from Presidential papers in the Truman Library. Daniel followed this book in 1986 with a volume of her mother's life, ''Bess W. Truman'', which covered her mother's, as well as her father's life from an insider, micro perspective as opposed to a macro perspective taken in ''Harry S Truman''.
Daniel also wrote books on White House first ladies and pets, the history of the White House and its inhabitants, as well as a critically acclaimed series of fictional murder mysteries set in various well-known locations in and around Washington, D.C. An article in The Weekly Standard makes a strong though circumstantial case that the murder mysteries are the work of a ghost writer, Donald Bain. Now in her 80s, she continues to write and publish regularly.

Current life

At the age of 83, Daniel is the earliest surviving child of an American President and the second eldest surviving child of an American president, only younger than John Eisenhower, and continues to reside in her Park Avenue home in Manhattan. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Harry S Truman Presidential Library and Museum. Mrs. Daniel is also on the Board of Governors for the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.

Bibliography

Fiction

Book	Year	Notes
''Murder in the White House''	1980	ISBN 0-87795-245-0
''Murder on Capitol Hill''	1981	ISBN 0-87795-312-0
''Murder in the Supreme Court''	1982	ISBN 0-87795-384-8
''Murder in the Smithsonian''	1983	ISBN 0-87795-475-5
''Murder on Embassy Row''	1984	ISBN 0-87795-594-8
''Murder at the FBI''	1985	ISBN 0-87795-680-4
''Murder in Georgetown''	1986	ISBN 0-87795-797-5
''Murder in the CIA''	1987	ISBN 0-394-55795-6
''Murder at the Kennedy Center''	1989	ISBN 0-394-57602-0
''Murder at the National Cathedral''	1990	ISBN 0-394-57603-9
''Murder at the Pentagon''	1992	ISBN 0-394-57604-7
''Murder on the Potomac''	1994	ISBN 0-679-43309-0
''Murder at the National Gallery''	1996	ISBN 0-679-43530-1
''Murder in the House''	1997	ISBN 0-679-43528-X
''Murder at the Watergate''	1998	ISBN 0-679-43535-2
''Murder in the Library of Congress''	1999	ISBN 0-375-50068-5
''Murder in Foggy Bottom''	2000	ISBN 0-375-50069-3
''Murder in Havana''	2001	ISBN 0-375-50070-7
''Murder at Ford's Theater''	2002	ISBN 0-345-44489-2
''Murder at Union Station''	2004	ISBN 0-345-44490-6
''Murder at the Washington Tribune''	2005	ISBN 0-345-47819-3
''Murder at the Opera''	2006	ISBN 0-345-47821-5

Non–Fiction

Book	Year	Notes
''Souvenir, Margaret Truman's Own Story''	1956
''White House Pets''	1969
''Harry S. Truman''	1973	ISBN 0-688-00005-3
''Woman of Courage''	1976	ISBN 0-688-03038-6
''Letters From Father: The Truman Family's Personal Correspondence''	1981	ISBN 0-87795-313-9
''Bess W. Truman''	1986	ISBN 0-02-529470-9
''Where The Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman''	1989	ISBN 0-446-51494-2
''First Ladies''	1995	ISBN 0-679-43439-9
''The President's House: 1800 to the Present''	2004	ISBN 0-345-47248-9

External link

★ Official Website