Born in New York City on November 14, 1904, Maria von Heimburg Mannes, known always as Marya, was the daughter of Clara Damrosch Mannes and David Mannes, both distinguished musicians. She was educated privately and benefited also from the cultural atmosphere of her home and from European travel. During the 1920s and early 1930s she contributed a number of stories and reviews to Theatre Arts, Creative Art, International Studio, and Harper╒s magazines and wrote a play, CafÄ, that was produced, albeit unsuccessfully, on Broadway.
During that period, from 1926 to 1930, she was married to theatrical designer Jo Mielziner. From 1933 to 1936 she was a feature editor for Vogue magazine. For some time thereafter she lived abroad in Florence with her second husband, Richard Blow, an artist. From 1941 to 1945 she was involved in government work, first for the Office of War Information and later as an analyst for the Office of Strategic Services.
After the war Mannes resumed writing for magazines, notably the New Yorker, and in 1946╨1947 she was a feature editor for Glamour. Her first book, Message from a Stranger, a novel, was published in 1948. In 1952 she joined the staff of Reporter magazine, to which she contributed essays, reviews, opinions, and verse until 1963. A collection of essays criticizing and satirizing American mores, foibles, and preoccupations appeared in 1958 as More In Anger, a book that occasioned widespread comment. Subverse, 1959, was a collection of satirical poems, many reprinted from Reporter.
In 1961 she published The New York I Know, and in 1964 But Will It Sell. From 1965 to 1967 she wrote a monthly column and in 1968 movie reviews for McCall╒s. She also contributed a monthly column to the New York Times in 1967 and in 1967╨1968 was a regular commentator on a New York public television station. Later books included They, 1968; Out of My Time, an autobiography, 1971; Uncoupling, an account of her three divorces, written with Norman Sheresky, 1972; and Last Rites, a plea for laws supporting euthanasia, 1974. Marya Mannes was accounted one of the most perceptive observers of, and acerbic commentators on, the American way of life. She died on September 13, 1990, in San Francisco, California.
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