Marion L. Bloom

Marion L. Bloom

Writer, nurse, and, briefly, literary agent. JJ received a letter dated 4 May 1917 from her, offering to represent him. He thought that "L. Bloom", as he named the agent to John Quinn, was male. She opened her literary agency in early 1917 and ran it for about a year out of an apartment in New York. Though not Jewish, in a letter from 1973 she tantalizingly wrote that she was "spoken of as a Jewess because I'm small and dark" (In Defense of Marion: The Love of Marion Bloom and H. L. Mencken, ed. Edward A. Martin [Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996], xxix). Michael Groden and William Brockman