Margaret Parton (1915 – 1981) was an American author, critic, and journalist. Her parents were journalists, prominent in their day: Lemuel F. Parton, and Mary Field Parton.^[1] Her career was long and eventful, including a great deal of crime and foreign reporting, and contact with many influential personalities in literary, political and legal affairs.^[1] From the mid 1940s, she was a beat writer for the New York Herald Tribune in Asia, working first in India and later in Japan.^[2]

Her three autobiographical works were Laughter on the Hill, 1945, which dealt with her Bohemian experiences in San Francisco; The Leaf and the Flame describing her experience as a journalist in India at the time of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi; and her final autobiography: Journey Through A Lighted Room 1973^[1] An extensive collection of her papers is accessible at the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives: Margaret Parton papers.^[3]

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