Maralyn Lois Polak
Maralyn Lois Polak | |
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| Born | Long Branch, New Jersey, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Columnist, author, screenwriter, poet, editor, researcher |
Maralyn Lois Polak is an American columnist, screenwriter, performance poet, spoken word artist, novelist and journalist.[1][2]
In collaboration with architect Benjamin Nia, Polak co-created the 25-minute documentary My Hometown: Preservation or Development? about the threatened demolition of 19th century buildings near Philadelphia's historic Rittenhouse Square, and preservationists' efforts to save them from a developer's wrecking ball.[3]
Her journalistic career also includes a long stint with the mainstream media as nationally syndicated weekly celebrity interview columnist for Knight-Ridder and the now-defunct Sunday Magazine of The Philadelphia Inquirer, where she did over a thousand columns.[4][5]
As a former commentary columnist for the online news site WorldNetDaily during a decade as one of their few progressive contributors, Polak wrote more than five hundred political satire opinion pieces in her weekly column called Left-Handed.[6]
She also authored the experimental online meta-novel, IMAGINARY PLAYMATES/Man in Her Mind: Further Adventures of Boris and Natasha, serialized weekly for six months on the former political-literary website FemmeSoul.Com, and a cartoon book, Anoushka on Her Deathbed: 101 Cartoons From the Abyss.[7]
Polak's reviews, essays and opinion editorials have appeared in the Chicago Tribune[5] and The New York Times.[8]
References
- ^ "Howard.edu". Howard.edu. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
- ^ "Maralyn Lois Polak". Authorsguild.net.
- ^ Rubino, Frank (25 April 2005). "A Razin' in the Sun". Philadelphia Weekly. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
- ^ Naedele, Walter (2 June 2010). "Roger F. Goodwin, 69; filmed campaign ads". Philly.com. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
- ^ a b "Chicago Tribune". Articles.chicagotribune.com. 20 January 1992. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
- ^ "WorldNetDaily". Wnd.com. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Hammond, Ruth (21 June 2005). "Judges for the 2005 AltWeekly Awards Announced". Altweeklies.com.
- ^ Lois Polak, Maralyn (30 March 1986). "A Passion Born in Kindergarten". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
External links
- Miranda Pear’s Brazen Bedtime Stories: Un-P.C. Fairytales for Grownups
- Left-Handed by Maralyn Lois Polak at WorldNetDaily
- Maralyn Lois Polak at IMDb
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- American political writers
- American documentary filmmakers
- Jewish American writers
- Jewish women writers
- Screenwriters from New Jersey
- Knight Ridder
- Living people
- Novelists from New Jersey
- American women poets
- Women columnists
- American women journalists
- American women novelists
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century American poets
- 20th-century American poets
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- Women documentary filmmakers