A Biography of Mrs. Marty Mann

A Biography of Mrs. Marty Mann:
Pioneer public health reformer and author of Women Suffer Too, the first story written by a woman in Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book.

“This excellent biography gives Marty Mann her place in history.”
-- Stacia Murphy, President, National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc.

“Marty Mann was America’s pioneer to battle the stigma surrounding alcoholism and led the way to put a ‘human face’ on alcoholism recovery.”
-- William Cope Moyers, President, Johnson Institute Foundation

Glamorous, vivacious, and brilliantly captivating, Marty Mann changed forever the face of alcoholism in America. Tumbling from her place among the privileged circles of New York City and Europe to the perilous Bowery, Mann defied prevailing stereotypes about women and alcohol to become one of the first female members of Alcoholics Anonymous. She later became one of America’s most important public-health policy reformers, and is credited with introducing the terms alcoholic and alcoholism into the standard lexicon, laying the groundwork for treatment programs, reducing the stigma surrounding alcoholism, and securing a place for women in treatment and recovery.