Marya mannes wikipedia

Born 14 November 1904, New York, New York, died 13 September 1990

Wrote under: Marya Mannes, Sec.

Daughter of David and Clara Damrosch Mannes; married JoMielziner, 1926 (divorced); Richard Blow, 1936 (divorced); Christopher Clarkson, 1948 (divorced); children: one son

Marya Mannes spent her childhood in New York City, where she was privately educated.

Along with her parents, a violinist and a pianist, the founders of the Mannes College of Music, and her brother Leopold, co-inventor of the Kodachrome process, Mannes spent many vacations in Europe; upon her graduation in 1923, she spent a year in England independently studying sculpture and writing.

After returning to the U.S., Mannes worked as a playwright, editor for Vogue and Mademoiselle, and cultural commentator for the Reporter, McCall's, the New York Times, Harper's, and The New Republic.

During World War II, she worked for the OSS and was based briefly in Portugal and Spain. Mannes was