Marian Christy

Marian Christy was an award-winning Boston Globe writer, editor, and columnist for twenty-six years, retiring in 1991. During her tenure, she was nominated twice for the Pulitzer and is the only three-time winner of the prestigious JCPenney-University of Missouri Award. Her papers are collected at Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. She has published four books on journalism. Christy has been a watercolor artist since her teenage years. Now in her eighth decade, after...See more

Marian Christy was an award-winning Boston Globe writer, editor, and columnist for twenty-six years, retiring in 1991. During her tenure, she was nominated twice for the Pulitzer and is the only three-time winner of the prestigious JCPenney-University of Missouri Award. Her papers are collected at Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. She has published four books on journalism. Christy has been a watercolor artist since her teenage years. Now in her eighth decade, after many years of painting with brushes, she has emerged as the pioneer who invented Knifed Watercolors(R). Dumbbell is her first novel. See less