Fishback, Margaret, 1900-1985

  1. Fishback, Margaret, 1900-1985
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1900 Mar. 10 Born Margaret Fishback, Washington, D.C. 1917 Graduated from Central High School (Washington, D.C.) 1921 A.B. degree, Goucher College (Baltimore, Md.) 1921 Teacher, English and History, Columbia Junior High School (Washington, D.C.) 1922 Organizational Department, Tamblyn and Brown (New York, N.Y.) 1926 1930 Divisional copywriter, R. H Macy & Co. (Macy’s) 1930 1942 Institutional advertisement writer, Macy's 1932 Published I Feel Better Now, Verses 1933 Published Out of My Head 1935 Published I Take It Back 1935 June 14 Married Alberto Gastone Antolini, chief rug buyer, Macy's 1937 Published One to a Customer: Collected Poems 1938 Published Safe Conduct: When to Behave--And Why 1940 Published Time for a Quick One 1940 1942 Copy Chief, Macy's 1942 Jan. 25 Son Anthony Frederick (Tony) Antolini born 1943 1947 Wrote Woman-Talk column in Liberty magazine 1945 Published Look Who's A Mother! 1948 1950 Copywriter, Cecil & Presbrey 1951 Copywriter, Warwick & Legler 1956 Divorced Alberto Antolini 1958 Copywriter, Young & Rubicam 1959 Oct. 1 1961 Copywriter, Doyle Dane Bernbach 1963 Published My Little Library: Dolls, Games, Rhymes 1963 Published Poems Made Up to Take Out 1968 Published The Animal Parade (translated from German) 1969 Published A Child's Book of Natural History 1985 Sept. 25 Died, Camden, Me.

Margaret Fishback Antolini was an advertising copywriter and author of light verse and prose. She was known for her wry, cynical attitudes towards domesticity, and her marriage to Alberto Gastone Antolini in 1935 prompted headlines such as Sneerer at Love Engaged to Wed ( The New York American, 17 April 1935). The couple had one son, Tony. Fishback lived in several New York City neighborhoods, settling in Murray Hill in 1941, where she would remain until at least 1976. She spent most summers in Thomaston, Maine.

Fishback contributed light verse and prose to a number of national publications, including Collier's, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Look, Mademoiselle, New York Times, Reader's Digest, Saturday Evening Post, and Woman's Day . She authored several compilations of light verse, an etiquette book called Safe Conduct: When to Behave--and Why, and two children's books. Common themes in Fishback's work include New York City, womanhood, marriage, and career. Fishback also frequently based her writings on stories and advertisements in newspapers. She published primarily under her maiden name, but also occasionally under her married name and the pseudonyms Marne and Marnie.

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