Margaret Seymour Carpenter (April 3, 1893 - March 30, 1987) was the writer of the novel Experiment Perilous (Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1943), a New York Times Bestseller in 1943.
The novel was produced by RKO Radio Pictures as a film of the same name, Experiment Perilous, starring Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, and Paul Lukas.
She was the daughter of George Rice Carpenter and his wife, Mary Seymour.
[1] She married on May 2, 1916, in New York City to Henry Barber Richardson of Boston, Massachusetts.
[2] Carpenter died March 30, 1987, four days before her 94th birthday, in Boston, Massachusetts.