Mary Mahoney is a writer, podcaster, and historian. She is a co-host of Dolls of our Lives which revisits the American Girls series, book by book. This show, which has been featured in the New York Times and other outlets, investigates the historical stories offered by the brand for what they reveal about the eras in which they’re set and the decades that produced them (the 1980s/1990s). Learn more about Mary here.

Her book, Dolls of our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl, is out now! “Through interviews with a legion of devoted doll lovers, a field trip to Colonial Williamsburg, a place that inspired Pleasant to create American Girl, and an exploration of their own (complicated) fandom, this is a deep dive into one of the 90s most coveted products – the American Girl doll.” Dolls of Our Lives has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, and in The New Yorker, Book Riot, Anne Helen Peterson’s Culture Study,  The American Scholar, Library Journal, among other outlets. 

Mary is represented by Lauren MacLeod at Aevitas Creative Management.