Margaret Seymour Carpenter

Margaret Seymour Carpenter, born April 3, 1893, died March 30, 1987 at Boston, Massachusetts, was the author of the novel Experiment Perilous (Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1943), a New York Times Bestseller in 1943. The novel was subsequently produced by RKO Radio Pictures as a film of the same name, Experiment Perilous, starring Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, and Paul Lukas. She was a daughter of George Rice Carpenter and his wife Mary Seymour. She married on May 2, 1916, in New York City to Henry Barber Richardson of Boston, Massachusetts.