Mary Gabriel is the author of ''Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution'', about
Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...
and his wife
Jenny von Westphalen
Johanna Bertha Julie Jenny Edle von Westphalen (12 February 18142 December 1881) was a German theatre critic and political activist. She married the philosopher and political economist Karl Marx in 1843.
Background
Jenny von Westphalen was bor ...
. It was a finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize
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, the
National Book Award
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and the
National Book Critics Circle Award
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, the book is held in 985 libraries. She also wrote ''Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored'' — about suffragette
Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927), was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for President of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians ...
—, and'' The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone'' — about collectors and travelers
Cone sisters
Claribel Cone (1864–1929) and Etta Cone (1870–1949), collectively known as the Cone sisters, were active as American art collectors, world travelers, and socialites during the first part of the 20th century. Claribel trained as a physician an ...
. Her latest 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. Mary Gabriel was educated in the United States and France, and worked in Washington and London as a
Reuters
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editor for nearly two decades. Gabriel was the 2022 recipient of the NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize.
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American women historians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American historians
21st-century American women writers
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