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Malvina Reynolds
American folk singer
1900 – 1978aged 77
A folk singer-songwriter and political activist who didn't start writing songs in earnest until midlife, Reynolds turned a sharp eye on postwar American conformity in "Little Boxes," its title now shorthand for tract-house sameness, and wrote environmental concern into pop culture early with "What Have They Done to the Rain." "Morningtown Ride" became a children's-music standard covered for generations after her.