Marion Meade

Marion Meade studied at Northwestern University in Illinois and later received a master's from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She worked as a freelance writer and her articles have appeared in leading magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times , McCall's , the Village Voice , Ms. Magazine , and Cosmopolitan . Meade has written novels, biographies, and nonfiction books. Bitching was a significant contribution to the second phase of development in the feminist movement. She...See more

Marion Meade studied at Northwestern University in Illinois and later received a master's from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She worked as a freelance writer and her articles have appeared in leading magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times , McCall's , the Village Voice , Ms. Magazine , and Cosmopolitan . Meade has written novels, biographies, and nonfiction books. Bitching was a significant contribution to the second phase of development in the feminist movement. She has written biographies of Victoria Woodhull ( Free Woman ), Eleanor of Aquitaine , Madame Blavatsky , Buster Keaton ( Cut to the Chase ), Woody Allen ( The Unruly Life of Woody Allen ), and Dorothy Parker ( What Fresh Hell Is This? ). She has published two historical novels: Sybille , which narrates the life of a woman troubadour in thirteenth century southern France, during Europe's first great holocaust, the Albigensian crusade; and Stealing Heaven, The Love Story of Heloise and Abelard . She lives in New York City. See less