[1] She began her career as a writer WNYC, a radio station in New York and later worked as a television critic for The Nation.
[1] In 1978, she wrote The Thin Edge: Coast and Man in Crisis about the poor condition of dunes and beaches.
[1] In 1984, she wrote, Neptune's Revenge: The Ocean of Tomorrow, was a critique of overfishing, oil spills, radioactive waste, and toxins.
Her first husband was Dr. Louis Langman who she married in 1937; the marriage ended in divorce.
[3][4] Her second husband was real estate developer Robert E. Simon; the marriage ended in divorce.