Background
She was the daughter of Harry and Leonie (Kleinert) Guinzburg. She married James Marshall, son of famed New York lawyer, Louis Marshall.
She was the daughter of Harry and Leonie (Kleinert) Guinzburg. She married James Marshall, son of famed New York lawyer, Louis Marshall.
She graduated from Barnard College in 1919.
Lenore and James had two children, Ellen and Jonathan. They lived in New York City. James served on the Board of Education in New York City for seventeen years, including as its president
He called for the creation of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization during World World War World War II From 1929 to 1932, Lenore Marshall worked as an editor at Cape and Smith, where she was instrumental getting them to publish The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.
She also edited As I Lay Dying. Her work appeared in Harper"s, and The New Yorker.
In 1933, she became the treasurer of the Writers" League Against Lynching, and corresponded with Theodore Dreiser, who was a member, and who wrote the anti-lynching story "Nigger Jeff". In 1956, with Norman Cousins, she helped found SANE, the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy.
She continued her anti-nuclear work with the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility.
She corresponded with Irving Howe. I am not embattled. I"m battling, and that makes life so much more interesting. She lived at the Dorset Hotel, and New Hope, Pennsylvania.
In 1971, she was on the board of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association. The central theme is a woman"s struggle to emancipate herself and lead a good life." "Her prose is freshest when it is specific, describing a union organizer with great affection or an advocate of nuclear weapons with unusual cruelty.
When she deals more generally with Literature or Politics or, she sometimes gets fuzzy or even affected.".
On The Hill is Level: "lieutenant is a novel of philosophical ideas and of literary culture, of moral idealism and social criticism.
Member of executive board Post War World Council, 1943. Member Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Member Society of Friends.
Married James Marshall, August 20, 1919. Children: Ellen (Mistress Roger Scholle), Jonathan.