Mary Dunlop Maclean

Mary Dunlop Maclean (pseudonym, Judith Herz; September 27, 1873 – July 12, 1912) was a writer and journalist and the first managing editor of The Crisis from 1909 until her death.

Her mother, who was a descendant of the Revolutionary War hero Paul Dudley Sargent and Governor John Winthrop, had been born in Maine, while her father had been born in Nassau to American parents.

[6] She used her skills as a journalist to conduct interviews and report to the NAACP on a lynching in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.

[7] Maclean worked simultaneously on the Sunday staff at the New York Times, writing features such as a report from Sicily after the 1908 Messina earthquake.

[8][9] She used the pseudonym "Judith Herz" for at least one article in The New Era (a profile of the Yiddish-language playwright, Jacob Gordin).