Biographies

Margaret Truman Daniel, the president’s daughter who achieved renown in her own right as an author of best-selling biographies and mysteries, died on Tuesday in Chicago. She wrote “Murder in the White House,” about a corrupt secretary of state found strangled in the family quarters of the executive mansion. Other books in the series issued at a rate of one a year.

Theodocia McLean was born on Beals Island, in Downeast Maine, in 1954. After being adopted twice, she longs to be connected to the Island and to her roots. Her love for writing began when her fifth grade teacher captured her imagination with creative writing assignments while she was living away from home in a harsh, punitive private school environment. A song that she sings everyday is the only l