Marian Sanders

Marion Klein Sanders (1905–1977) was an American journalist, editor, and author. From 1958 until 1970, she was a senior editor of Harper's Magazine, where many of her investigative articles on women, medicine, politics, social welfare, and urban affairs appeared. She was later a managing editor of World Press Review. In 1973, she wrote the first biography of Dorothy Thompson, Dorothy Thompson: A Legend in Her Time (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973). After an unsuccessful run for Congress in the former 28th Congressional District of New York, including Rockland, Orange, Sullivan, and Delaware Counties, in 1952, she wrote, The Lady and the Vote (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956). Other works include a series of conversations with Saul Alinsky entitled, The Professional Radical: Conversations with Saul Alinsky, (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), a work of fiction, The Bride Laughed Once co-written with Mortimer S. Edelstein (Farrar & Rinehart, 1943), which received the Mary Roberts Rinehart award for mystery writing. She edited The Crisis in American Medicine (Harper and Row, 1961).