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American journalist

Marion Lena Starkey (April 13, – December 18, ) was an American writer of history books, including The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials.

She was born April 13, in Worcester, MA to Arthur and Alice T. (Gray) Starkey. She earned a bachelor's degree from Boston University in , and a master's degree from Harvard University in ^[1]

Career

After working as a newspaper editor for the Saugus Herald and teaching at the Hampton Institute and at the University of Connecticut at New London, she became a full-time writer.^[2] She began writing as a child, but did not take up writing full-time for many years.

Her books include: The Tall Man from Boston, The Visionary Girls: Witchcraft in Salem Village, Cheroke