Mary Gabriel (author)
American historian
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Mary Gabriel is an American author.
Mary Gabriel | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1955 (age 70–71) |
| Writing career | |
| Genre | history |
| Notable works | Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution |
| Notable awards | NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize |
She wrote Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, about Karl Marx and his wife Jenny von Westphalen. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.[1] According to WorldCat, the book is held in 985 libraries.[2] She also wrote Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored (about suffragette Victoria Woodhull), and The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone (about collectors and travelers the Cone sisters).[3] Her fourth book, Ninth Street Women : Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler — Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art, was published in September 2018.[4][5]
Mary Gabriel was educated in the United States and France, and worked in Washington and London as a Reuters editor for nearly two decades.[6][7] Gabriel was the 2022 recipient of the NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize.[8]
Books
- Notorious Victoria: The Uncensored Life of Victoria Woodhull - Visionary, Suffragist, and First Woman to Run for President. Algonquin Books, 1998.
- The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta & Claribel Cone. Bancroft Press, 2002.
- Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution. Hachette, 2011.
- Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art. Little, Brown & Company, 2018.
- Madonna: A Rebel Life. Little, Brown & Company, 2023.
