“Simplicity is the final achievement.”
MARJORIE MAXFIELD is an American writer.
Her newest novel is set in South Texas, New York, Ireland and Scotland, and takes place in the mid-twentieth century. The narrative is built around Laurence Hamilton, a South Texas oil, gas, and cattle baron, and to the East, Peter Murray, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and their heirs.
She is currently writing DARLIN’, IT WON’T BE FOR LONG, the second novel in the Laurence Hamilton series, set in Texas, the American Southwest, New York, and Washington D.C. .
Marjorie is recognized as having created the country’s first financial television and radio talk shows at PBS Ch. 8 and KTRH radio in Houston in 1980. Today the talk show format is the programming centerpiece for CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Bloomberg, Fox News as well as other television and radio stations.
Her current writing projects also include short stories, THE MAGIK ROOM and TEXAS FRIENDS, DECEASED AND OTHERWISE. Her writing has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and on the Internet.
As a nationally-recognized etiquette expert, she self-published The Write Stuff: A Modern Guide to Personal Stationery & Wedding. It is in its 3rd printing. Her publishing company, MMM Signature Press, is Houston-based.
As a bestselling author, she had appeared on prime time news and talk shows in major metropolitan markets such as Washington, D.C., Denver, San Antonio, and Houston. She was the featured guest, at key venues such as the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, NYC, and the National Stationery Show. Her book signing tours included stops at legendary booksellers, local retail stores, as well as universities.
MARJORIE MAXFIELD is a host of a popular Podcast, a professional speaker, and has written a blog for WeddingWire.
On her popular weekly Podcast, The Houston Class, the official media platform of Marjorie Maxfield, she shares her thoughts and perspective on scholarly theological concerns of a contemporary audience. Her students come from traditional Christian and Jewish denominations as well as various world belief systems. With over three-hundred, one-hour class lectures, she has an expansive library of Podcasts. Marjorie began her undertaking in 2008 when she first published the MMM Letter.
On an university note, Marjorie has returned to Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas for over a decade for faculty/alumni book signings, and recently has stepped into the “universe of luminary Trinity graduates” in her interview articles featured in Trinity Magazine and AlumNet. The most recent— https://www.trinity.edu/news/coming-home-feeling; https://www.trinity.edu/news/returning-university-sun.
As the lead writer for WeddingWire, the largest bridal internet site, she posted her weekly blogs for six years, often set to music. Her etiquette advice has appeared in feature articles in magazines and newspapers as well as across social media.
As a professional speaker, she has appeared before diversified audiences including the Public Relations Society of America; Trinity University, San Antonio; the National Association of Wedding Planners, and was the keynote speaker for Bridal Showcase in Washington, D.C., Denver, and Houston, Texas.
MARJORIE MAXFIELD is a successful Texas business women.
Marjorie established a Texas-based public relations and advertising firm, The Max Agency. Her clients included nationally-recognized corporations and leaders in the financial, real estate development, and retail industries. She began her career as a print, television, and radio copywriter, and has won awards for her marketing, writing, and graphic design.
As an accomplished Texas business women, she and her husband own what the national press called, the store of the rich and famous, Tanglewood Pharmacy and Gifts. A retail icon in Texas, her clients include past presidents and first ladies, senators, astronauts, sports legends, rock and movie stars, celebrities, and Texas luminaries. Her first wedding invitation-stationery bride was Olympic Gold Medalist, Mary Lou Retton.
She was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and moved to San Antonio, Texas fifteen years later. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Trinity University.
She is a member of PEN America, The Authors’ Guild, Western Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, the Texas State Historical Association, and the Texas Library Association.
She has served on boards, committees and active in many charitable, civic, and professional organizations, universities, including the Junior Leagues of Houston, and San Antonio, Trinity University, the Public Relations Society of America, the Houston Art Directors Club, and the American Advertising Federation—her honors include ADDY awards for sales promotion, Houston and San Antonio, Texas.
She is a professional photographer who enjoys the landscapes of the American Southwest. She is an accomplished pianist and has joined a Houston choir as a mezzo-soprano.
She and her husband donated their 100-piece “You Are What You Write On,” a memorabilia collection to The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas in Austin.
She and her husband reside in Houston, Texas.
Photo: Monument Valley, Arizona.
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