| Summary: | Literary agent, magazine editor, and book editor Marie Dutton Brown was born on October 4, 1940, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Germantown High School in 1958, and earned her B.S. degree from Pennsylvania State University in1962. Brown became a teacher for the Philadelphia Public Schools in 1963. In 1967, she took a position as a general publishing trainee at Doubleday Book Publishing in New York City. After her marriage, she moved to California in 1969. She returned to Doubleday Book Publishing as a senior editor in 1972. Brown became the editor in chief of lan magazine; and sales manager and assistant buyer for Endicott Booksellers. At a time when publishers were no longer accepting unsolicited manuscripts, Brown decided to take her expertise and open her own literary agency, Marie Brown and Associates, in Harlem, New York. She was one of the few African American agents in her industry.
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