Margaret E. (Margaret Elizabeth) Sangster

Born in 1894, Margaret Elizabeth Sangster grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in a family shaped by journalism and writing. Her father was a newspaperman, and her grandmother was the well-known writer and editor Margaret Elizabeth Sangster; as a girl, she spent hours reading to her grandmother after the older woman lost her sight.

Sangster began her own writing career young, selling poems to the Christian Herald at 16 and working for the publication soon after. In 1918–1919 she spent several months in Europe as a war correspondent, reporting from Belgium, France, and Germany. She later became an editor at Photoplay and The Smart Set, then shifted into freelance work, building a steady career on disciplined, full-time writing.

She is best remembered for her radio scripts. Over the years she wrote for a range of serialized programs, including Hope Alden’s Romance, Ellen Randolph, Arnold Grimm’s Daughter, Joyce Jordan, M.D., Whispering Streets, and My True Story, and she also worked on the television version of My True Story. She died on October 23, 1981.