Natalia Danesi Murray

Natalia Danesi Murray (December 14, 1901 – June 9, 1994) was an American publishing executive and book editor.

Her son wrote that, as a young woman, Natalia Danesi was seduced by the soldier and writer Gabriele D'Annunzio.

[1] During World War II, from 1938 to 1944, she worked for an NBC radio program to broadcast short-wave news to Italy.

[3] In 1979, she was the main stakeholder in the publishing of Janet Flanner's World: Uncollected Writings, 1932–1975, edited by Irving Drutman.

[1] She was cremated and her ashes, mingled with those of Flanner, were scattered over Cherry Grove in Fire Island,[5][6] where the two had met, in 1940.

[2] The Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray papers, 1940–1984 are hosted at the Library of Congress.