Marie Menken

Marie Menken was born Marie Menkevicius à New York City on May 25, 1909, the daughter of Catholic Lithuanian immigrants. She grew up in Brooklyn with a brother and sister, in a home used to frequent financial difficulties. Both she and her sister Adele later changed their surname to Menken. Marie Menken and Willard Maas had got married in 1937, moving into a Brooklyn penthouse at 62 Montague Street which they would inhabit jusqu'à leur décès. She died on December 29, 1970. Four days after her death, on January 2, 1971, Willard Maas died.