Marylin Bender


Marylin Bender, or Marylin Bender Altschul, is an American journalist and author. She worked as a reporter for the New York Journal American and was a reporter, editor, and freelancer at The New York Times from 1959 to 1978 and 1985 to 1992. From 1976 to 1977, she was editor of the Business and Finance section at the Times, and from 1985 to 1991, she edited Business World. She wrote several books, including The Beautiful People, At the Top, The Chosen Instrument, Nouveau is Better Than No Riche at All.

Background

Bender grew up in Prospect Park and her family moved to Manhattan when she was young. She graduated from Smith College in 1944 and received a JD from Columbia Law School in 1947. She married Selig Altschul, who became an economic consultant to the Civil Aeronautics Board, in 1959 and had a son, James Sloan, in 1960.
Bender started her journalism career after school working the dangerous crime beat for the New York Journal American where she covered the Jesús Galíndez kidnapping and murder. She worked for Parade before joining The New York Times, where she worked for thirty-two years reporting on style and business. She was the first female editor of the New York Times business section and pioneered reporting on women's issues with Charlotte Curtis and Gloria Emerson. Bender was elected to the New York Women in Communication's Matrix Hall of Fame in 1972 and received the Smith College Medal in 1978.

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