Maralyn Lois Polak
American writer
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Maralyn Lois Polak is an American columnist, screenwriter, performance poet, documentarian, spoken word artist, novelist and journalist.[1][2]
- Columnist
- author
- screenwriter
- poet
- editor
- researcher
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| Born | Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S. |
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Career
In collaboration with architect Benjamin Nia, Polak co-created the 25-minute documentary My Hometown: Preservation or Development? about the threatened demolition of 19th century buildings near Philadelphia's historic Rittenhouse Square, and preservationists' efforts to save them from a developer's wrecking ball.[3]
Her journalistic career also includes a long stint with the mainstream media as nationally syndicated weekly celebrity interview columnist for Knight Ridder and the now-defunct Sunday Magazine of The Philadelphia Inquirer, where she did over a thousand columns.[4][5]
Polak was a commentary columnist for the online news site WorldNetDaily.[6]
Polak wrote The Writer as Celebrity: Intimate Interviews in 1986. The book contains interviews with a variety of authors and journalists.[7]
Polak authored the experimental online meta-novel, IMAGINARY PLAYMATES/Man in Her Mind: Further Adventures of Boris and Natasha, serialized weekly for six months on the former political-literary website FemmeSoul.Com, and a cartoon book, Anoushka on Her Deathbed: 101 Cartoons From the Abyss.[8]
Polak's reviews, essays and opinion editorials have appeared in the Chicago Tribune[5] and The New York Times.[9]