Margaret Wise Brown never lived to see Goodnight Moon's colossal success. In 1952, on a trip to Paris, she died suddenly from an embolism following an operation. She was 42 years old.

Jeffrey Brown's Goodnight Darth Vader announced. Chronicle Books unveils its Vader & Son and Vader's Little Princess follow-up. By Hugh Armitage Published: 13 February 2014.

In 1947, Brown published what is now her most famous book, “Goodnight Moon.” The action in this spare, poetic story about a bunny at bedtime is slow-moving, and the scene never really changes.