Margaret Warner Morley

Margaret Warner Morley (February 17, 1858, in Montrose, Iowa – December 12, 1923, in Washington, D.C.) was an American educator, biologist, and author of many children's books on nature and biology.

She studied at State University of New York at Oswego and Hunter College.

[1][3] As early as 1890 she visited Tryon, North Carolina with the painter Amelia Watson where she resided in the cottage of playwright William Gillette.

[citation needed] A collection of Morley's work is held at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, Connecticut.

The collection consists of travel logs and sketchbooks of rural North Carolina, and book manuscripts.