Margery Williams

Margery Williams Bianco (22 July 1881 – 4 September 1944), born Margery Winifred Williams, was an award-winning American children’s author best known for her popular 1921 novel The Velveteen Rabbit. 
Williams' 1913 novel The Thing in the Woods (which was reprinted in the United States under the pseudonym Harper Williams) a story about lycanthropy in Pennsylvania, has been speculated to have been an influence on H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Dunwich Horror" Margery Williams at Wikipedia; Lovecraft was known to have read the book, and wrote the poem "On The Thing in the Woods by Harper Williams", a piece which remained unpublished until its inclusion in the 2001 Night Shade Books collection The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft "On The Thing in the Woods by Harper Williams" at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
==Selected Bibliography==
===Novels===
*The Thing in the Woods (1913)
==External Links==
*Margery Williams at Wikipedia
*Margery Williams at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
==References==
Category:Lovecraft's Inspirations (authors)
Category:Deceased (Real World)