Background
Mannes, Marya was born on November 14, 1904 in New York City. Daughter of David and Clara (Damrosch) Mannes.
(Mannes was native New Yorker, a feature editor at Vogue, ...)
Mannes was native New Yorker, a feature editor at Vogue, and a frequent contributor to New Yorker. About a third of these essays (political, social, critical, and satirical) originally appeared in The Reporter. From the dustjacket: "When an American woman of great intelligence, compassion and wit becomes sufficiently disturbed with mid-twentieth century culture to write a book of protest, take notice."
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journalist satirist social critic author
Mannes, Marya was born on November 14, 1904 in New York City. Daughter of David and Clara (Damrosch) Mannes.
Graduate, Miss Veltin School for Girls, New York City. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hood College, 1961.
Mannes also wrote under the pen name of, "Secretary"
Her brother was musician Leopold Mannes. Her parents, Clara (Damrosch) Mannes and David Mannes, founded the Mannes College of Music in New New York Mannes was an editor at Vogue and later wrote prolifically for the magazines The Reporter and The New Yorker.
Mannes published a number of books of essays, sharply and wittily critical of American society, including More in Anger: Some Opinions, Uncensored and Unteleprompted.
She was a much-sought-after social commentator on radio and television She hosted her own television show in 1959, I speak for myself.
Other books by Mannes included Subverse (1959), a satirical verse, Out of My Time (1971), an autobiography, and two novels, Message From a Stranger (1948), and They (1968). Married three times, Mannes had one child who survived her.
She died in San Francisco, California.
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(An autobiography by the author, artist, "spiritual hermap...)
(Mannes was native New Yorker, a feature editor at Vogue, ...)
(Dust jacket design by Robert Hallock. His first book.)
(Philosophy, Social Studies)
(poetry.)
Trustee Mannes School Music, New York City. Member American Federation of television and Radio Artists, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Author's League.
Married Jo Mielziner, 1926 (divorced). Married Richard Blow, February 1937 (divorced). 1 child, David J.; married Christopher Clarkson, April 2, 1948 (divorced).