Following her education in journalism and sociology at Penn State and Immaculata Universities Marjorie Keen studied creative writing at Franklin & Marshall College.

During the 1980s and ‘90s she wrote as a correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer, the West Chester Daily Local News, Farmshine, and Lancaster Farming. She also had articles published in Intelligencer Journal-Lancaster New Era, Lancaster Sunday News, The Sunday News, York; Sunday Patriot-News, Harrisburg; The Morning Call, Allentown; Philadelphia Daily News; Public Opinion, Chambersburg; and Reading Eagle.

Marjorie’s magazine articles were published in Atlantic Coast Conference Currents, Chester County Business & Industry, The Chief of Police, Environmental Action, Farm & Ranch Living, Farm Supply Retailing, Ford New Holland News, Grit, Hoard’s Dairyman, Mushroom News, Pennsylvania, The Penn Stater, Small Business News, and Writer’s Digest.

She co-authored the following books: Letters from Home: McLaren Family Correspondence, On the Road Again: Letters and Cards from Mary and Arthur Keen, and Seventy-fifth Anniversary History of The First United Presbyterian Church of Parkesburg. She was a contributor to the anthology, My Words Are Gonna Linger: The Art of Personal History.

Among the memoir clients Marjorie has worked with are Dr. Crawford W. Adams, Elizabeth Joanne Biebl, Donna D. Baker, Nicholas Biddle Jr., Carl R. Fretz, Dr. Daniel J. Gross, Furman H. Gyger Jr., Arthur D. Hershey, Jo F. Lozier, Harriet C. Marshall, John F. Marshall, G. M. W. Pink, Charles E. Swope, Bruce R. Tilton, Mary Wallace, James K. Wilde, and Leon H. Wilkinson.

Marjorie taught a course on Ethical Wills for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Widener University and she interviews veterans for the U.S. Library of Congress Veterans History Project.

She is a member of the Association of Personal Historians and the Chester County Historical Society.

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