Mary Gabriel

Mary Gabriel is an American author.

She wrote Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, about Karl Marx and his wife Jenny von Westphalen. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 985 libraries. She also wrote Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored (about suffragette Victoria Woodhull), and The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone (about collectors and travelers the Cone sisters). Her fourth book, Ninth Street Women : Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler — Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art, was published in September 2018.

Mary Gabriel was educated in the United States and France, and worked in Washington and London as a Reuters editor for nearly two decades. Gabriel was the 2022 recipient of the NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize. Books Notorious Victoria: The Uncensored Life of Victoria Woodhull - Visionary, Suffragist, and First Woman to Run for President. Algonquin Books, 1998. The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta & Claribel Cone. Bancroft Press, 2002. Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution. Hachette, 2011. Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art. Little, Brown & Company, 2018. Madonna: A Rebel Life. Little, Brown & Company, 2023.