Marilyn S. Greenwald
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Marilyn S. Greenwald

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Marilyn Greenwald was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and has had an interest in journalism and writing for as long as she can remember. She worked on her junior high school newspaper, her high school newspaper, and she was a reporter, columnist and editorial page editor for the Ohio State University Lantern. It was natural for her to spend ten years of her professional career at newspapers. She was a copy editor and entertainment writer at the Telegraph in Painesville, Ohio, and a news and business reporter for the Columbus Citizen-Journal and the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio. Her career took a different turn in the late 1980s when she began as an assistant professor at the Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University; during her first few years there, she developed an interest in studying women in journalism and the portrayal of women in newspapers. As part of a doctoral dissertation at Ohio State University, she began studying the career of Charlotte Curtis, an Ohioan who eventually became the first top female editor at the New York Times. That provided much of the information for her first biography, "A Woman of the Times: Journalism, Feminism and the Career of Charlotte Curtis," which was published in 1999 and named a Notable Book of the New York Times. Her latest biography, co-authored with Yun Li, is "Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice." It tells the story of Carter, the only Black person -- and the only woman -- on the legal team of Thomas E. Dewey that prosecuted mobster Lucky Luciano. Carter's legal work against the mob propelled her to fame, but she is less known for her lifelong dedication to social justice and civil-rights causes. Also little known are the efforts of her grandfather, parents, and brother, all of whom fought for social justice. Greenwald's second biography, "The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer Syndicate," chronicles the life of Canadian newspaper reporter Leslie McFarlane, who is best known as "Franklin W. Dixon," the man who wrote the first group of Hardy Boys mysteries. McFarlane, who wrote the books in the 1930s and 1940s, earned about $100 per book and signed away all rights to their profits. His books have sold millions and millions of copies over more than 70 years. Her third biography, "Cleveland Amory: Media Curmudgeon and Animal Rights Crusader," published in 2009, is the story of Amory, one of the nation's first animal-rights activists. He was also a best-selling author, TV Guide critic and Today show commentator. Greenwald's fourth biography, "Pauline Frederick Reporting: A Pioneering Broadcaster Covers the Cold War," reviews the life of Frederick, one of the first women to work fullt-ime for a news network. Frederick covered pivotal world events for NBC, including the formation of the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials. A professor emerita of journalism at Ohio University, Greenwald taught classes for 30 years in news reporting, arts criticism, and biography writing. She has three degrees from Ohio State -- a bachelor's and master's degree in Journalism and a Ph.D in Communication. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Tim Doulin.
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