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Marie Freid Rodell (January 31, 1912 – November 9, 1975) was a literary agent and author who managed the publications of much of environmentalist
Rachel Carson Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservation movement, conservationist whose sea trilogy (1941–1955) and book ''Silent Spring'' (1962) are credited with advancing mari ...
's writings, as well as the first book by civil rights activist
Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, civil and political rights, civil rights activist and political philosopher who was a leader of the civil rights move ...
Rodell was born in
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, and attended
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(A.B. 1932). When Duell, Sloan, & Pearce was formed in December 1939, Rodell was one of their first hires and would spend the next nine years as the editor for mystery novel imprint, The Bloodhound. Rodell left Duell, Sloan & Pearce to form her own literary agency in 1948.Rodell, Marie Freid (1912-1975)
, ''King Encyclopedia'', accessed September 11, 2007
That year she met Rachel Carson, who hired her. She worked with Carson for the remainder of Carson's life, and after Carson's death in 1964 became her literary executor; she compiled and organized the Rachel Carson Papers (which took over two years) and arranged for the posthumous publication of ''A Sense of Wonder''.Priscilla Coit Murphy, ''What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of ''Silent Spring, (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005), pp. 28-29 In 1957, she was King's literary agent for '' Stride Toward Freedom''. Rodell wrote three mystery novels under the pen name Marion Randolph. She was also a member of Mensa. Rodell wrote ''Mystery Fiction: Theory and Technique''; in his column of November 7, 1943, ''Chicago Tribune'' book columnist Vincent Starrett called this “one of the most entertaining textbooks ever written.” She was the editor of the Regional Murder Series. She also wrote and published books under the pen name Marion Randolph.


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* ''Who Was Who in America'', Volume 6 1912 births 1975 deaths 20th-century American novelists American mystery writers American women novelists American literary agents Vassar College alumni Novelists from New York City American women mystery writers 20th-century American women writers Mensans {{US-novelist-stub