Marion Clyde McCarroll

Marion Clyde McCarroll (1891-1977) was a writer and journalist. McCarroll was the first woman issued a press pass by the New York Stock Exchange in New York City. She attained the press pass during the 1920s while writing for The Commercial, a daily business newspaper. McCarroll also penned the "Advice for the Lovelorn, a nationally syndicated column, after she inherited it from Dorothy Dix. She graduated from the Beard School (now Morristown-Beard School) in Orange, New Jersey, in 1910. McCarroll then completed her bachelor's degree at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1914. After graduating from college, McCarroll worked as a social worker for a year. She served as president of the New York Newspaper Women's Club from 1930 to 1931 During her tenure of service at the club, Franklin Roosevelt (then the Governor of New York) visited.

McCarroll earned notoriety for penning the "Advice to the Lovelorn", a syndicated column. After initial reluctance, she started writing the column for the Hearst newspaper chain at the request of Ward Greene. McCarroll continued writing the column under the pen name of Beatrice Fairfax for the next 21 years. (between 1942 and 1963). In 1952, the New York chapter of Theta Sigma Pi, a journalism honor society, awarded her their Women of Achievement Award.

Marriage

McCarroll married journalist Lynn Booth in 1926. They divorced in 1935.

Death Previously a resident of Manhattan and Ridgewood, New Jersey, McCarroll died on August 1, 1977, at a nursing home in Allendale, New Jersey, where she had resided for the last seven years of her life.

Works

Summer Cookbook (1954) Suzanne of Belgium; the story of a modern girl, with Suzanne Silvercruys Farnam (1932)