[2] From 1929 to 1932, Lenore Marshall worked as an editor at Cape and Smith, where she was instrumental getting them to publish The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.
Her son Jonathan Marshall owned and published the Scottsdale Daily Progress newspaper.
In 1933, she became the treasurer of the Writers' League Against Lynching,[6][7] and corresponded with Theodore Dreiser,[8] who was a member, and who wrote the anti-lynching story "Nigger Jeff".
[17] On The Hill is Level: "It is a novel of philosophical ideas and of literary culture, of moral idealism and social criticism.
"[19] "Her prose is freshest when it is specific, describing a union organizer with great affection or an advocate of nuclear weapons with unusual cruelty.