Mary Gabriel (author)

{{Short description|American historian}}

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Mary Gabriel is the author of Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, about Karl Marx and his wife Jenny von Westphalen. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.{{Cite web |date=2012 |title=Finalist: Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, by Mary Gabriel (Little, Brown and Company) |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/mary-gabriel |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=The Pulitzer Prizes}} According to WorldCat, the book is held in 985 libraries.{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/674932559|title=Love and capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the birth of a revolution|first=Mary|last=Gabriel|date=May 1, 2011|publisher=Little, Brown and Co.|oclc=674932559|accessdate=May 1, 2019|via=Open WorldCat}} She also wrote Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored — about suffragette Victoria Woodhull —, and The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone — about collectors and travelers Cone sisters.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Mary-Gabriel/e/B005EYMQ18|title=Mary Gabriel|website=Amazon }} Her fourth book, Ninth Street Women : Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler — Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art, was published in September 2018.{{Cite book|url=https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/mary-gabriel/ninth-street-women/9780316226196/|title=Ninth Street Women|date=September 2018|accessdate=May 1, 2019|via=www.littlebrown.com}}{{Cite news|url=https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/ninth-street-women-lee-krasner-elaine-de-kooning-grace-hartigan-joan-mitchell-and-helen-frankenthaler-five-painters-and-the-movement/|title=Book Marks reviews of Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement by Mary Gabriel|work=Book Marks|access-date=2018-10-06|language=en-US}} Mary Gabriel was educated in the United States and France, and worked in Washington and London as a Reuters editor for nearly two decades.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm/author_number/x13441/mary-gabriel|title=Mary Gabriel|website=BookBrowse.com|accessdate=June 30, 2019}}{{cite web | url=https://isreview.org/person/mary-gabriel/index.html | title=Mary Gabriel | International Socialist Review }} Gabriel was the 2022 recipient of the NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize.{{Cite web |last=Communications |first=NYU Web |title=Mary Gabriel, Author of "Ninth Street Women", Receives the NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize |url=http://www.nyu.edu/content/nyu/en/about/news-publications/news/2022/may/mary-gabriel--author-of--ninth-street-women---receives-the-nyu-a |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=www.nyu.edu |language=en}}