Provided by Wikipedia Miriam Young (died September 12, 1974) was an American writer best known for children's books. She also wrote ''Mother Wore Tights'', a memoir about growing up in a vaudeville family, which was adapted as the 1947 film of the same name, a "Hollywood supermusical".
Young was born in 1911 or 1912, her ''New York Times'' obituary implies. Other sources give year of birth 1913. The Library of Congress gives date February 26, 1913.
