Margaret Sanborn (1915–2005) was an American writer and biographer of Robert E. Lee and Mark Twain.
Margaret Sanborn resided in Mill Valley, California, north of San Francisco near the Pacific Ocean.
She died early in 2005 leaving a son, David R. Sanborn, and a daughter, Catherine.
Margaret Sanborn came to prominence in 1966 with the publication of Robert E. Lee: A Portrait [1807-1861], the first volume of her two-volume biography of the Confederate general which won critical acclaim.
[1807-1861] (Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1966) Robert E. Lee: the Complete Man 1861-1870 (Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1967) The American: River of El Dorado (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1974) The Grand Tetons (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1978) Yosemite – Its Discovery, Its Wonders & Its People (Random House, New York, 1981) Mark Twain: The Bachelor Years: A Biography (Doubleday, New York, 1990) This article about a United States biographer is a stub.