Discipline: Literature

Marya Mannes

Discipline: Literature
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1971, 1973, 1974, 1978
Marya Mannes (1904-1990) was an American author, journalist, and critic. Mannes was an editor at Vogue and later wrote prolifically for the magazines The Reporter and The New Yorker. Mannes published a number of books of essays sharply and wittily critical of American society, including More in Anger: Some Opinions, Uncensored and Unteleprompted. She was a much-sought-after social commentator on radio and television. She hosted her own 13-week television show on New York's WNEW-TV in 1959, “I Speak for Myself.” In 1958 she won the George Polk Memorial Award, one of many honors given for her writing.