Mary Gabriel (author)

Mary Gabriel
Born1955 (age 68–69)
OccupationEditing staff Edit this on Wikidata

Mary Gabriel is the author of Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, about Karl Marx and his wife Jenny von Westphalen. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.[1] According to WorldCat, the book is held in 985 libraries.[2] She also wrote Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored — about suffragette Victoria Woodhull —, and The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone — about collectors and travelers Cone sisters.[3] Her fourth book, Ninth Street Women : Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler — Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art, was published in September 2018.[4][5] Mary Gabriel was educated in the United States and France, and worked in Washington and London as a Reuters editor for nearly two decades.[6][7] Gabriel was the 2022 recipient of the NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize.[8]

  1. ^ "Finalist: Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, by Mary Gabriel (Little, Brown and Company)". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2012. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
  2. ^ Gabriel, Mary (May 1, 2011). Love and capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the birth of a revolution. Little, Brown and Co. OCLC 674932559. Retrieved May 1, 2019 – via Open WorldCat.
  3. ^ "Mary Gabriel". Amazon.
  4. ^ Ninth Street Women. September 2018. Retrieved May 1, 2019 – via www.littlebrown.com.
  5. ^ "Book Marks reviews of Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement by Mary Gabriel". Book Marks. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  6. ^ "Mary Gabriel". BookBrowse.com. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
  7. ^ "Mary Gabriel | International Socialist Review".
  8. ^ Communications, NYU Web. "Mary Gabriel, Author of "Ninth Street Women", Receives the NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize". www.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-15.