About
Marilyn Greenwald is a professor emerita of Journalism at Ohio University, where she taught courses in news reporting, biography writing and the writing of reviews and criticism. She worked for ten years as a news reporter and business writer at daily newspapers in Ohio, including the Columbus Citizen-Journal and the Columbus Dispatch. She is the author of five biographies, including A Woman of the Times: Journalism, Feminism and the Career of Charlotte Curtis (1999), which was named a Notable Book of the New York Times. Her latest book, Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice, co-authored with Yun Li, received the Top Biography/Autobiography Award in 2022 from the Association of American Publishers.
Featured Work
Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice
This biography tells the story of Eunice Hunton Carter, a pioneering attorney and the only woman and person of color on the team that prosecuted mobster Lucky Luciano in the sensational trial of 1936. This book describes Carter’s many courtroom successes as a prosecutor who also built an international reputation as a pioneering social-justice activist and legal advisor to the United Nations. Her life and the lives of her family resonate today as we celebrate the efforts of many who still work to achieve racial and gender equality.
