Margaret R. Manning

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Margaret R. Manning (died 1984) was an American journalist and book reviewer. She was book editor of the Boston Globe the final ten years of her life, and twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. [1] [2] [3]

Pulitzer Prize for Criticism Subclass of an Pulitzer Prize

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Manning was born in Omaha, Nebraska and grew up Illinois. In 1943 she graduated with honors from Vassar College. Prior to beginning work as a reviewer at the Globe in the 1960s, she did some writing for United Press and the Chicago Tribune . [2]

Nebraska State of the United States of America

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Illinois State of the United States of America

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Vassar College private, coeducational liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States

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She was married to Robert J. Manning. [2] [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Feeney, Mark (29 September 2012). "Robert Manning, 92, writer and innovative editor of The Atlantic". Boston Globe . Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "Margaret R. Manning,Book Editor in Boston". New York Times. 27 December 1984. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Margaret Manning, 63; Boston Globe reviewer". New London, Conn.: The Day. 27 Dec 1984. p. 39. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
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