![]() Angela is an amazing person and wonderful friend, so she knew that I’d be intrigued by Fishback’s life and work-her proto-feminism, her pursuit of both a career and a family, her serious publication record as a poet, and on and on. My high school best friend, Angela, was doing an internship at Duke University for her library sciences degree, and she got to help process the Fishback papers when Fishback’s son donated them to the Hartman Centre for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History. How did you come to discover Margaret Fishback? I got to write a bit about her life and to help create an archive of some of her poetry for the Poetry Foundation which you can take a look at here. Like Lillian, Margaret Fishback really was the highest paid female advertising copywriter in the States in the 1930s, really did work at Macy’s, and really did write sparkling light verse. Can you tell us a bit about her and her life? Lillian Boxfish is based on a real person, Margaret Fishback. Talking Frank O’Hara, career women and how to be a flâneuse with Lillian Boxfish author, Kathleen Rooney. ![]()
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