Margaret McQueen Crosland (later Denis, 17 June 1920 – 3 July 2017) was an English literary biographer and translator.
Born in Bridgnorth, Shropshire in June 1920,[2] Crosland has translated both French and Italian literature.
She has written biographies of Colette, Jean Cocteau, Simone de Beauvoir and Edith Piaf, and translated work by writers including the Marquis de Sade, Émile Zola, Colette, Jean Cocteau, Edmond de Goncourt and Cesare Pavese.
She also wrote book-length studies of women's writing in Britain and France.
[3] Crosland married Max Denis in January 1950.