If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

Weissenbach was to be the inspiration for the Opium Lady in Miss MacIntosh My Darling and her drug-based flights of fantasy were to make their way into the novel. Her parents separated when Marguerite Young was very young and Marguerite Young was raised by her maternal grandmother who nurtured her love of literature. Thomas ISBN 978-0-7432-1562-6.

Marguerite Vivian Young (August 28 1908 – November 17 1995) was an American author of poetry fiction non-fiction and criticism. ". Her work evinced an interest in social issues and environmentalism.