Margaret Manning

{{short description|American journalist (died 1984)}}

Margaret Manning (died 1984) was an American journalist and book reviewer. She was book editor of the Boston Globe the final ten years of her life, and twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.{{cite news |first=Mark |last=Feeney |title=Robert Manning, 92, writer and innovative editor of The Atlantic |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/09/28/robert-manning-writer-and-innovative-editor-the-atlantic/ApuL2bxcvyDfKDETrzWTRO/story.html |publisher=Boston Globe |date=29 September 2012 |accessdate=8 January 2015 }}{{cite news |title=Margaret R. Manning, Book Editor in Boston |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/27/obituaries/margaret-r-manningbook-editor-in-boston.html |work=New York Times |date=27 December 1984 |accessdate=8 January 2015 }}{{cite news |title=Margaret Manning, 63; Boston Globe reviewer |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19841227&id=yjdSAAAAIBAJ&pg=6094,5958695 |publisher=The Day |location=New London, Conn. |pages=39 |date=27 Dec 1984 |accessdate=8 January 2015 }}

Manning was born in Omaha, Nebraska and grew up Illinois. In 1943 she graduated with honors from Vassar College. Prior to beginning work as a reviewer at the Globe in the 1960s, she did some writing for United Press and the Chicago Tribune.

She was married to Robert J. Manning.