Marion Strobel

Marion Strobel (1895-1967) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic.

Life
She was the daughter of civic engineer Charles Louis Strobel, a successful civic engineer. In 1922 she married dermatologist James Herbert Mitchell in 1922 and settled with him in Chicago. The couple had two daughters, one of whom was the abstract expressionist painter Joan Mitchell.

Strober was an associate editor of Poetry from 1920 to 1925. She published two collections of poetry in the 1920s, then switched to writing novels, publishing five in the 1930s and 1940s. Strobel remained associated with Poetry, reviewing poetry for the magazine, for over 45 years. She was acquainted with numerous literary figures, including Sylvia Beach, Louise Bogan, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Carl Sandberg.

Writing
In a review, Harriet Monroe said of debut collection: "Once In a Blue Moon gives us the modern girl, the modern young woman — the various rainbow colors of her prismatic emotional experience, registered in a technique audaciously personal and felicitous. Her flirtations are here, in all their ephemeral intensity; her friendships, even her athletics; also her observations of characters and situations, presented with irony, compassion, or reverence, but always with a keen sense of drama.”

Poetry

 * Once in a Blue Moon. 1925
 * Lost City. 1928.

Fiction

 * Saturday Afternoon. 1930.
 * A Woman of Fashion. 1931.
 * Silvia’s in Town. 1933
 * Kiss and Kill. 1935
 * Ice Before Killing. 1943.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the Poetry Foundation.