Marian Lindberg

Marian Lindberg began her career as a reporter for The Buffalo Courier-Express. Lawyers proved to be some of her most informed sources, leading Lindberg to become a lawyer herself. She went on to represent writers, reporters and other communicators and participate in high profile first amendment and civil rights cases. In 2005 she pivoted and began negotiating land preservation deals for an environmental organization. She traveled to Brazil in 2012 to research a family story of murder in the Amazon. The resulting book, "The End of the Rainy Season: Discovering My Family's Hidden Past in Brazil" won an Elle readers' prize. In her latest book, "Scandal on Plum Island: A Commander Becomes the Accused," Lindberg applies her legal and research skills to tell the little-known story of an unmarried Army major portrayed as an out-of-control "homo-sexualist" in a sensational 1914 court-martial on a small island off the eastern end of Long Island. Marian is a graduate of Columbia Law School, Vassar College, and Concord Academy. She also holds a master's degree in economics from the State University of NY at Buffalo.