Marie Rodell
Marie Freid Rodell (born January 31, 1912 in New York ; † November 9, 1975 ) was an American literary agent whose clients included the non-fiction author Rachel Carson and, for a short time, Martin Luther King .
Marie Rodell attended Vassar College , which she graduated with a BA in 1932 . After editing detective novels for nine years as an editor , she founded her own literary agency in 1948 . In that year she also met Rachel Carson, with whom she worked until she died in 1964, whose estate she arranged and for whom she posthumously published A Sense of Wonder . In 1957 she was the literary agent for Martin Luther King's book Stride Toward Freedom .
Works (in selection)
- Mystery fiction. Theory & Technique , Duel Sloan & Pearce Inc, 1943.
Single receipts
- ^ A b Rodell, Marie Freid (1912-1975) , King Encyclopedia , accessed September 11, 2007
- ^ Priscilla Coit Murphy, What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring, (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005), pp. 28-29
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| SURNAME | Rodell, Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rodell, Marie Freid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American literary agent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1975 |