Marian Storm

Marian Isabel Storm (January 30, 1892 – August 20, 1975) was an American writer, journalist, poet, animal rights advocate and conservationist.

Biography

Storm was born in Stormville, New York. She was educated at Smith College and graduated in 1913. She worked as secretary to the Argentine Ambassador in Washington, D.C. (1917–1918). She authored books on Mexican culture and history, natural history; animal rights, plant conservation and her travels in Central and South America, Caribbean and Europe. It was positively reviewed in the Southwest Review as an "unusually interesting book, both for the wealth of curious facts it contains and for its sympathetic, thoughtful treatment of the leading character."

Selected publications

Minstrel Weather (1920) Prologue to Mexico (1931) Little Known Mexico: The Story of a Search for a Place (1932) The Life of Saint Rose (1937) Hoofways into Hot Country (1939) True Stories from Tarascan Places (1941) Enjoying Uruapan: A Book for Travelers in Michoacán (1945) Rights of Animals: An Appeal to Human Beings (1951) Poems of Sun and Snow (1955)