Marcia Davenport was an American author and music critic. She was born Marcia Glick, daughter of Bernard Glick and opera singer Alma Gluck, later stepdaughter of violinist Efrem Zimbalist when Alma Gluck remarried.
Davenport traveled extensively with her parents and was educated intermittently at the Friends School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Shipley School at Bryn Mawr. She began at Wellesley College but eloped to Pittsburgh in 1923 to marry Fred D. Clarke. Eventually she earned her B.A. at the University of Grenoble. Her first child was born in 1924, but in 1925 she divorced Clarke.
She took an advertising copywriting job to support herself and her daughter. In 1928 she began at the editorial staff of The New Yorker, where she worked until 1931. In 1929, she married Russell Davenport, who soon after became editor of Fortune. Davenport’s second daughter was born in 1934. That same year she began as the music critic of Stage magazine.
Books in order of publication:
Non-Fiction
Mozart (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1932)
Garibaldi: Father of Modern Italy (New York: Random House, 1956)
Too Strong for Fantasy (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1967) (Memoir)
Jan Masaryk: Posledni Portret (Czechoslovakia: 1990) (Memoir)
Fiction
Of Lena Geyer (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1936)
The Valley of Decision (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1942)
East Side, West Side (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947)
My Brother’s Keeper (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1954)
The Constant Image (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1960)
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