About
Author, editor, and American cultural critic whose work, Subverse, was published in 1959; she edited Vogue Magazine and wrote numerous pieces for The New Yorker as well.
Before Fame
Her maternal grandfather was a conductor and her uncles were as well, thus her qualification and exposure to culture and music.
Trivia
She hosted a television program called I Speak For Myself in the late 1950s.
Family Life
She was married three times and was survived by one child after her 1990 death in San Francisco.
Associated With
Her brother, Leopold Mannes, was a well-known musician, and her parents established New York's Mannes College of Music.
