Lenore Marshall Explained

Lenore Marshall
Birth Name:Lenore Guinzburg
Birth Date:7 September 1899
Birth Place:New York City, U.S.
Death Place:Doylestown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:Barnard College
Spouse:James Marshall
Children:2, including Jonathan
Parents:Harry Guinzburg
Leonie Kleinert

Lenore Guinzburg Marshall (September 7, 1899, New York City – September 23, 1971, Doylestown, Pennsylvania) was an American poet, novelist, and activist.

Life

She was the daughter of Harry and Leonie (Kleinert) Guinzburg. She graduated from Barnard College in 1919.[1]

She married James Marshall, son of New York lawyer Louis Marshall. Lenore and James had two children, Ellen and Jonathan; they lived in New York City.[2]

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.[3] She also edited As I Lay Dying.[4]

Her work appeared in Harper's,[5] and The New Yorker.

Her son Jonathan Marshall owned and published the Scottsdale Daily Progress newspaper. Jonathan ran unsuccessfully for United States Senate against Barry Goldwater in 1974.

Activism

In 1933, she became the treasurer of the Writers' League Against Lynching,[6] [7] and corresponded with Theodore Dreiser,[8] who was a member, and who wrote the anti-lynching story "Nigger Jeff".[9]

In 1956, with Norman Cousins, she helped found SANE, the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy.[10] She continued her anti-nuclear work with the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility.[11] She corresponded with Irving Howe.[12]

I am not embattled. I'm battling, and that makes life so much more interesting.[13]

She lived at the Dorset Hotel, and New Hope, Pennsylvania.[11] In 1971, she was on the board of PEN.[14]

Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize is given each year by the Academy of American Poets. The Prize was created in 1975 by the New Hope Foundation of Pennsylvania, which, until 1987, was a philanthropic foundation created by Lenore Marshall and her husband, James Marshall, to "support the arts and the cause of world peace";[15] [16] Lenore Marshall, a poet, novelist, editor, and peace activist, had died in 1971.[17]

Awards

Works

Poetry

Fiction

Memoir

Non-fiction

Anthologies

Reviews

On The Hill is Level: "It is a novel of philosophical ideas and of literary culture, of moral idealism and social criticism. The central theme is a woman's struggle to emancipate herself and lead a good life."[19]

"Her prose is freshest when it is specific, describing a union organizer with great affection or an advocate of nuclear weapons with unusual cruelty. There are passages about her children written with wide-open eyes and a generous heart. When she deals more generally with Literature or Politics or Life, she sometimes gets fuzzy or even affected."[20]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lenore Guinzburg Marshall | Jewish Women's Archive.
  2. Web site: James A. Michener Art Museum – Art and Education in Doylestown, PA.
  3. Book: Count No 'Count . 94. Ben Wasson, Carvel Collins . 978-1-57806-879-1 . 2006 . Univ. Press of Mississippi.
  4. https://www.usask.ca/english/faulkner/main/criticism/meriwether.html "Notes on the Textual History of The Sound and the Fury", James B. Meriwether, footnote 9
  5. Web site: Tree, By Lenore Marshall (Harper's Magazine). dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101124193127/http://www.harpers.org/archive/1968/08/0015541. 2010-11-24.
  6. Book: Strange fruit: Plays on lynching by American women . 978-0-253-21163-7 . Perkins . Kathy A . Stephens . Judith Louise . 1998-01-01. Indiana University Press .
  7. Book: A man called White . 167. Walter White. University of Georgia Press. 1995. 978-0-8203-1698-7 .
  8. https://books.google.com/books?id=DqNHNwAACAAJ.
  9. Book: Witnessing lynching . 151. Anne P. Rice. Rutgers University Press. 2003. 978-0-8135-3330-8 .
  10. Book: Protest, power, and change: An encyclopedia of nonviolent action from ACT-UP to women's suffrage . 978-0-8153-0913-0 . Powers . Roger S . Vogele . William B . Kruegler . Christopher . 1997. Taylor & Francis .
  11. Web site: James A. Michener Art Museum – Art and Education in Doylestown, PA.
  12. Book: Irving Howe: A life of passionate dissent . registration . 352 . Lenore Marshall writer. . NYU Press . 978-0-8147-9821-8 . Sorin . Gerald . 2002.
  13. News: Lenore G. Marshall, 72, Dies; Was Poet, Novelist and Editor; Founder of Sane Nuclear Policy Group Published Three Volumes of Verse. September 25, 1971. The New York Times.
  14. Web site: PEN American Center - 1971-1972 . 2009-06-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090401052224/http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/480 . 2009-04-01 .
  15. Web site: Lenore Marshall . James A. Michener Art Museum . 2009-06-12.
  16. Marshall, Jonathan. 2009. Dateline History: The Life of Jonathan Marshall. Phoenix: Acacia Publishers, p. 290.
  17. News: Lenore G. Marshall, 72, Dies; Was Poet, Novelist, and Editor . September 25, 1971 . The New York Times.
  18. Web site: The MacDowell Colony . 2009-06-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090526052307/http://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists-indexfellows.php . 2009-05-26 . dead .
  19. Maxwell Geismar, New York Times Book Review, cited in "Lenore G. Marshall, 72, Dies: Was Poet, Novelist, Editor", New York Times, September 25, 1971.
  20. News: Nonfiction in Brief. Walter Goodman. August 10, 1980. The New York Times.

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