Miriam Marx Allen (May 19, 1927 – June 29, 2017) was an American author and the daughter of Groucho Marx and his first wife, Ruth Johnson.
Marx was born in Manhattan on May 19, 1927. She studied for a time at Bennington College in Vermont. But after being expelled for alcohol-related infractions three months before graduating, she worked as a writer at Mademoiselle Magazine. She later worked on her father's quiz show, You Bet Your Life. She also appeared in several Marx Brothers documentaries.
In her 1992 book, Love Groucho: Letters from Groucho Marx to His Daughter Miriam, she detailed her difficult relationship with Groucho, her battle against addictive substances, and her eventual reconciliation with her father. She died June 29, 2017, in Capistrano Beach, California, at the age of 90. Her elder brother, Arthur Marx, died in 2011. Her marriage to Gorden Allen, whom she met at Menninger Clinic while undergoing treatment for alcoholism, ended in divorce.
Bibliography
Marx, Miriam. Love Groucho: Letters from Groucho Marx to His Daughter Miriam. Faber & Faber, 1992; .
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1927 births
2017 deaths
Writers from New York City
American people of German-Jewish descent
20th-century American memoirists
American women memoirists
Jewish American writers
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American Jews
21st-century American women
Memoirists from New York (state)
