Margaret Winifred Lane (23 June 1907 – 14 February 1994) was a British journalist, biographer and novelist, the author of more than two dozen books.

Margaret Lane was born on 23 June 1907, the only child of Edith (née Webb), daughter of a glass dealer, and Harry George Lane, a newspaper editor.

[2] After university, she worked as a reporter for the Daily Express, from 1928 to 1931, and then as a special correspondent for the International News Service from 1931 to 1932, while there she interviewed the gangster Al Capone.

In 1984, the BBC produced a two-part television dramatisation of Potter's life based on Lane's books, The Tale of Beatrix Potter with Penelope Wilton in the lead role, that was "praised as a simple yet intense story with just the right touches of unflinching reserve.

"[2] Lane also wrote books about the Brontë sisters (1953) and Samuel Johnson (1975).