In 2008, he wrote Marvin Traub: Like No Other Career, a coffee table book that also profiles his works since leaving Bloomingdale's.
[2] Traub's father Sam D. was an executive of a corset company and his mother Bea (née Bruckman), a saleswoman at Bonwit Teller.
[3] As a teenager Traub was a neighbor and friend of Stanley Kubrick, sharing an interest in photography.
[4] Traub graduated from Harvard University in 1947, although his studies were interrupted by service in Europe during World War II.
[7] Traub had three children; Andrew (formerly an executive at Macy's), James (a journalist) and Margaret (who founded and runs the lighting company Adesso).