Marshall is the author of the 2004 novel, A Girl Could Stand Up.[3][4]
Personal life
Marshall is the mother of three children, twins Josephine and Beatrice, and son Marshall, from her first marriage to Dominic "Dino" Bradlee, son of Washington Post editor
Ben Bradlee.[5][6][7] They divorced in 1998.[8]
On June 14, 2003, Marshall married
Bill Weld, the former Governor of Massachusetts, a longtime friend and neighbor, on the lawn of their beach house in
Bellport, New York.[9][10][11] The newlyweds, with Marshall's 12-year-old twin girls and 9-year-old son lived in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in her summer house on the
Beaver Kill river and his summer house near the
Ausable Club in the
Adirondacks.[12] During their marriage, Weld ran, unsuccessfully, for Governor of New York on the Republican ticket, and for Vice President of the United States on the Libertarian ticket. Marshall campaigned with and for her husband in both races.[13][14] In 2006, Marshall and Maggie Brooks were co-chairwomen of the "Women for Weld" initiative.[15] In contrast to
Susan Roosevelt Weld, Marshall "embraces" political life.[16]
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