Margaret Goff Clark

{{Short description|American children's book author}}

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| death_place = Santa Monica, California

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Margaret Goff Clark (1913–2003) was an American author of children's books. She is best known for her book Freedom Crossing.

Clark née Goff was born on March 7, 1913, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.{{cite news |title=Margaret Goff Clark Dies at 90 |url=https://buffalonews.com/news/margaret-goff-clark-dies-at-90-wrote-books-for-young-readers/article_34a0eaa6-267d-5cbb-9530-0310d9f4158b.html |access-date=25 September 2023 |work=Buffalo News |publisher= |date=22 October 2003 |language=en}} She attended the State Teachers College at Buffalo. In 1937 she married Charles R. Clark.{{cite web |last1=Goff Clark |first1=Margaret |title=Interview with Margaret Goff Clark |url=https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/bsc_oral_history/4/ |website=SUNY Buffalo State Oral Histories, 1975-1995 |access-date=25 September 2023 |date=12 June 1984}}

Her first book was The Mystery of Seneca Hill published in 1961 by Franklin Watts.{{cite web |last1=Clark |first1=Margaret Goff |title=The Mystery of Seneca Hill |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Km_bYgEACAAJ |website=Google Books |publisher=F. Watts |access-date=25 September 2023 |language=en |date=1961}}{{cite web |last1=Buell |first1=Ellen Lewis |title=Juvenile Mysteries |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/02/19/archives/juvenile-mysteries.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=25 September 2023 |date=19 February 1961}} Her book Freedom Crossing was published in 1969 by Funk & Wagnalls.{{cite journal |title=The Publishers Weekly |date=1970 |volume=197 |issue= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8JEAQAAIAAJ&q=Freedom%20Crossing%20Margaret%20Goff%20Clark%201969 |access-date=25 September 2023 |publisher=F. Leypoldt |language=en}} It was a historical novel for children about the Underground Railroad.{{cite web |last1=Clark |first1=Margaret Goff |title=Freedom Crossing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k6H75qNOh7IC&q=Freedom%20Crossing%20Margaret%20Goff%20Clark |website=Google Books |publisher=Scholastic Book Services |access-date=25 September 2023 |language=en |date=February 1989}}{{cite web |title=Margaret Goff Clark, A Friend of Niagara |url=http://www.niagara2008.com/history108.html |website=Niagara County Historical Society |access-date=25 September 2023}} In 1995 her book The Threatened Florida Black Bear was published by Cobblehill Books.{{cite web |last1=Clark |first1=Margaret Goff |title=The Threatened Florida Black Bear |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xs8WAQAAMAAJ |website=Google Books |publisher=Cobblehill Books |access-date=25 September 2023 |language=en |date=1995}} That book was a recipient of a 1995 Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12 awarded by the National Science Teachers Association.{{cite web |title=Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12: 1996 (Books published in 1995) |url=https://static.nsta.org/pdfs/ostb1996.pdf |website=National Science Teaching Association |access-date=26 September 2023}}

Clark died on October 6, 2003, in Santa Monica, California.