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She was born in Newburgh, New York, obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College in 1915, and worked for fund-raising organizations during World War I, including the American Committee for Devastated France.
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1927. Illustrated. Journalist and political activist Heywood Broun and Pulitzer prize winning author Margaret Leech have written the biography of Anthony Comstock, American morals crusader. He served with the Union army in the Civil War and was later active as an antiabortionist and in advocating the suppression of obscene literature. Contents: Portrait of a Crusader; Comstock and the Freudian Lions; Boyhood and a Wintry Faith; Should I Fall; Dear M.; The Hydra-Headed Monster; Beecher and the Lady Brokers; Puritan in the Spotlight; The Conquest of Congress; Comstock Shows His Badge; The Palace of Restell; Fires of the Inquisition; Sniping at Lady Luck; Bouquets and Brickbats; Artistic and Classical Traps; and The Old Man. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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She was born in Newburgh, New York, obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College in 1915, and worked for fund-raising organizations during World War I, including the American Committee for Devastated France.
Bachelor, Vassar College, 1915.
She started her writing career for the Condé Nast publishing company before World War I. Leech also worked in advertising and publicity. She was an associate of some of the wittiest and most brilliant men and women of literature that spent time at the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan. (His father, Joseph Pulitzer, had established the Pulitzer Prize by a bequest to Columbia University) They had one daughter, Susan.
Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865, is an account of Washington, District of Columbia In the Days of McKinley is a biography of President William McKinley, carefully told in minute detail, and he is shown as a more attractive person and better president than some have depicted him.
Leech also wrote three novels: The Back of the Book (1924), Tin Wedding (1926), and The Feathered Nest (1928) and, in 1927, co-wrote a biography of Anthony Comstock with Heywood Broun. Leech died of a stroke in New York City at age 80.
(Overview 1860: The American capital is sprawling, fractur...)
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After the war, she became friendly with members of the Algonquin Round Table, including critic-raconteur Alexander Woollcott.
Married Ralph Pullitzer, August 1, 1928 (deceased June 1939).
