Robert E. Lee: A Portrait

by Margaret Sanborn

Book by Sanborn, Margaret

546 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1967

About the author

Margaret Sanborn (1915–2005) was an American writer and biographer of Robert E. Lee and Mark Twain.

Margaret Sanborn resided in Mill Valley, California, north of San Francisco near the Pacific Ocean. She died early in 2005 leaving a son, David R. Sanborn, and a daughter, Catherine.

Margaret Sanborn came to prominence in 1966 with the publication of Robert E. Lee: A Portrait [1807-1861], the first volume of her two-volume biography of the Confederate general which won critical acclaim.