Description: The website for Margaret Willey, children's author, folklorist, novelist.
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I am a Michigan writer. I have lived most of my life on the shores of Lake Michigan. This setting features prominently in most of my writing. I am always working on something and prefer to have several projects going at once. After 40 years and many books, I still enjoy the immersion into another world that my projects require. Right now I am focusing on revising and publishing short stories for adults for a 12-story collection titled Additions . I live with my husband in Grand Haven.
A recent honor for my classic folktale Clever Beatrice. In 2020 it was chosen by the Library of Congress for their Discover Great Places Through Reading Program as the book to represent MICHIGAN!
Clever Beatrice is set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.