Marilyn Louise Booth (born 24 February 1955) is an author, scholar and translator of Arabic literature.
[2][3] Booth graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1978, and was the first female winner of the Wendell Scholarship.
in Arabic literature and Middle Eastern history from St Antony's College, Oxford in 1985.
Booth was the original translator of Rajaa Alsanea's bestseller Girls of Riyadh.
However, in a letter to the Times Literary Supplement in September 2007, she asserted that the author Alsanea and the publishers Penguin had interfered with her initial translation, resulting in a final version that was "inferior and infelicitous".