Margaret Malcolm

Edith Lyman Kuether
Born May 17, 1915
Died January 19, 2013(2013-01-19) (aged 97)
Pen name Margaret Malcolm
Occupation novelist
Language English
Nationality American
Period 1940–1981
Genre Mystery novel

Margaret Malcolm was the pseudonym of Edith Lyman Kuether (May 17, 1915 – January 19, 2013),[1] an American writer.

Biography

Kuether was born in 1915.[2] She used the pseudonym of Margaret Malcolm in honour of Saint Margaret Atheling, the great-granddaughter of Alfred the Great, and her husband, the Scottish King Malcolm Canmore. Edith Lyman Kuether was a native of Columbus, Ohio, and a 1937 graduate of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in Ohio. Mrs. Kuether played in the violin section of the National Symphony Orchestra when it went on a national tour in 1969, under the baton of Boston Pops Orchestra director Arthur Fiedler. From 1962 to 1975, she played violin in the orchestra for the annual Christmas performances of the Nutcracker ballet at Lisner Auditorium in Washington. She was a past president of the Friday Morning Music Club in Washington. Under the pseudonym Margaret Malcolm, she wrote a novel, “Headless Beings” (1973), a mystery set in Scotland, where she and her husband had traveled often.

Bibliography

As Margaret Malcolm

Another author writing under the name of Margaret Malcolm (not Edith Lyman Kuether) wrote the following:

References

  1. ↑ Edith Lyman Keuther's obituary
  2. ↑ The FictionMags Index, 15 November 2012


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