Margaret Leland Goldsmith was an American-born writer and translator who lived much of her life in England. She received her education (undergraduate and masters degrees) from the Universities of Illinois and Berlin. During World War I, she held several different government positions. In the mid-1920s she lived in Berlin, serving as an assistant trade commissioner and then briefly as the Berlin correspondent for the New York Evening Post. She also served as a literary agent for English authors, including attempting to get Virginia Woolf published in Germany.

In 1926 Goldsmith married British journalist Frederick Augustus Voigt (1892-1957), who at the time was the Manchester Guardian's German correspondent. Later in the 1920s she had a brief affair with Vita Sackville-West. Goldsmith and Voigt divorced in 1935.

Goldsmith was fluent in German and translated several works into English, including Arthur Feiler's America Seen Through German Eyes (1928), Erich Kästner's Emil and the Detectives (1931), Why I Left Germany by a German Jewish Scientist (1934), and several novels by authors including Hermynia Zur Mühlen, Oskar Maria Graf, Elisabeth Augustin, and others.

Goldsmith also wrote several nonfiction works, including biographies of Florence Nightingale, Sappho of Lesbos, Madame de Stael, Franz Anton Mesmer, and Maria Theresa of Austria. She wrote a biography of Hindenburg with her husband Voigt and the historical novel Venus in Scorpio: A Romance of Versailles (1940) about Marie Antoinette with Murray Constantine, a pseudonym for her friend Katharine Burdekin. Her other fictional works typically focused on independent, career-driven women in the 20th century.

[Information retrieved from "Margaret Goldsmith" entry in Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy, eds. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990:436.]