She was the daughter of Harry and Leonie (Kleinert) Guinzburg. She graduated from Barnard College in 1919.[1]
She married James Marshall, son of New York lawyer Louis Marshall. Lenore and James had two children, Ellen and Jonathan; they lived in New York City.[2]
In 1933, she became the treasurer of the Writers' League Against Lynching,[6][7] and corresponded with Theodore Dreiser,[8] who was a member, and who wrote the anti-lynching story "Nigger Jeff".[9]
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize is given each year by the Academy of American Poets. The Prize was created in 1975 by the New Hope Foundation of Pennsylvania, which, until 1987, was a philanthropic foundation created by Lenore Marshall and her husband, James Marshall, to "support the arts and the cause of world peace";[15][16] Lenore Marshall, a poet, novelist, editor, and peace activist, had died in 1971.[17]
Where is Vietnam? American Poets Respond: an Anthology of Contemporary Poems. Anchor Books. 1967.
Reviews
On The Hill is Level: "It is a novel of philosophical ideas and of literary culture, of moral idealism and social criticism. The central theme is a woman's struggle to emancipate herself and lead a good life."[19]
"Her prose is freshest when it is specific, describing a union organizer with great affection or an advocate of nuclear weapons with unusual cruelty. There are passages about her children written with wide-open eyes and a generous heart. When she deals more generally with Literature or Politics or Life, she sometimes gets fuzzy or even affected."[20]