| Birth Name: | Marian Cannon |
| Birth Date: | 13 September 1912 |
| Birth Place: | Franklin, New Hampshire, US |
| Death Place: | Cambridge, Massachusetts, US |
| Alma Mater: | Radcliffe College |
| Occupation: | Artist, author |
| Spouse: | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1940–1970; divorced) |
| Children: | 4 |
Marian Cannon Schlesinger (September 13, 1912 – October 14, 2017) was an American artist and author.[1]
She published two volumes of her memoir, Snatched from Oblivion: A Cambridge Memoir and I Remember: A Life of Politics, Painting and People, as well as five children's books, which she also illustrated.[2] She painted landscapes and portraits and spent time in China, where she visited her sister, to study art.[3]
She was a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a graduate of Radcliffe College. Her mother was feminist reformer and novelist Cornelia James Cannon, and her father was Walter Bradford Cannon, a professor at Harvard University. She was sister of Wilma Cannon Fairbank, an historian of Chinese art. She was married for thirty years to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.; their daughter, Christina Schlesinger, is a painter. She died on October 14, 2017, at the age of in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[4] [5]