Mix, Jennie Irene, 1862-1925

Dates:
Birth 1862
Death 1925-04-26
Gender:
Female
Americans
English

Biographical notes:

Jennie Irene Mix (1862-1925) was a music critic, journalist, novelist, and editor. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Lorenzo Dow Mix and Jane Sylvia Gardner. She studied classical music in Cleveland, New York, and Germany, and then pursued a career in journalism. She was a trained classical pianist, later worked as a music critic for the Toledo Times and book review editor and critic for the Pittsburgh Post.

During the 1920's when radio was reaching broad popularity, she was one of only a few women editors covering radio in journalism, working as an editor at Radio Broadcast (Magazine) from 1924 until her death in April of 1925. She authored a column entitled "The Listeners' Point of View" in Radio Broadcast that discussed radio broadcast programs, especially relating to music.

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Occupations:

  • Music critics
  • Writer, Prose, Fiction & Nonfiction
  • Writers and Editors

Places:

  • Cleveland, OH, US