Miriam Marx Allen (May 19, 1927 – June 29, 2017) was the daughter of

Groucho Marx Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (; October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer who performed in films and vaudeville on television, radio, and the stage. He is considered one of America's greatest comed ...

and his first wife, Ruth Johnson.

Biography

Marx was born in

Manhattan Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, larg ...

on May 19, 1927. She studied for a time at

Bennington College Bennington College is a private liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont, United States. Founded as a women’s college in 1932,

in Vermont. But after being expelled for alcohol-related infractions three months before graduating, she worked as a writer at '' Mademoiselle Magazine''. She later worked on her father's quiz show, '' You Bet Your Life''. She also appeared in several Marx Brothers documentaries. In her 1992 book, ''Love Groucho: Letters from Groucho Marx to His Daughter Miriam'', she detailed her difficult relationship with Groucho, her battle against addictive substances, and her eventual reconciliation with her father. She died June 29, 2017, in Capistrano Beach, California, at the age of 90. Her elder brother, Arthur Marx, died in 2011. Her marriage to Gorden Allen, whom she met at Menninger Clinic while undergoing treatment for alcoholism, ended in divorce.

Bibliography

* Marx, Miriam. ''Love Groucho: Letters from Groucho Marx to His Daughter Miriam''. Faber & Faber, 1992; .

References

1927 births 2017 deaths 20th-century American memoirists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women American people of German-Jewish descent American women memoirists Jewish American memoirists Jewish women writers Memoirists from New York (state) Writers from New York City {{US-nonfiction-writer-stub