| Other author/creator | Brown, Marie Dutton, interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Gines, Denise, interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title |
History Makers video oral history with Marie Brown |
| Portion of title |
Marie Brown |
| Abstract |
Literary agent, magazine editor, and book editor Marie Dutton Brown was born on October 4, 1940, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Germantown High School in 1958, and earned her B.S. degree from Pennsylvania State University in1962. Brown became a teacher for the Philadelphia Public Schools in 1963. In 1967, she took a position as a general publishing trainee at Doubleday Book Publishing in New York City. After her marriage, she moved to California in 1969. She returned to Doubleday Book Publishing as a senior editor in 1972. Brown became the editor in chief of lan magazine; and sales manager and assistant buyer for Endicott Booksellers. At a time when publishers were no longer accepting unsolicited manuscripts, Brown decided to take her expertise and open her own literary agency, Marie Brown and Associates, in Harlem, New York. She was one of the few African American agents in her industry. |
| Credits | Videographer, Neculai Burghelea. |
| Performer |
Denise Gines, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded New York, New York 2007 January 8. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2007.003 HistoryMakers |
