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Join us in celebrating Women's History Month with professor Marilyn Greenwald. She will share stories of women in journalism, including Bexley's own Charlotte Curtis, a New York Times editor.
Join us in celebrating Women's History Month with professor Marilyn Greenwald. She will share stories of women in journalism, including Bexley's own Charlotte Curtis, the first woman editor to appear on the masthead of the New York Times.
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.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Genealogy and Local History | Books, Reading, and Storytelling |
TAGS: | Women Journalists | Women in journalism | Marilyn Greenwald | Eunice Hunton Carter | Charlotte Curtis |
Bexley Public Library was founded in 1924 and first housed in Bexley High School, now Montrose Elementary School. The present building opened in 1929 and was designed by architects O.C. Miller and R.R. Reeves who drew upon French and Italian architecture from the 17th century for the design.
The library is located at 2411 East Main Street, at the intersection of East Main Street and Cassady Avenue. Parking is available in our parking lot on Euclaire Avenue and in front of the library on Main Street. Main Street is a No Parking Tow Zone from 4:00-6:00 p.m. weekdays.
