Papers of Anne Tolstoi Wallach, 1972

Advertising executive and novelist, Anne Tolstoi Wallach, was born on February 19, 1929, in New York City. Her father, Edward, was a physician, and her mother, Cecile, a homemaker. She graduated from the Dalton School in New York (1945) and earned a bachelor's degree in English from Radcliffe College (1949), where she served as editor of the literary magazine. Wallach began her advertising career at the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency. In 1971 she began working as a copy writer in a group of women that included art directors, and other professionals, who created an advertisement campaign for NOW, which advocated equal opportunities for women using the slogan "Womanpower: It's much too good to waste."

Wallach's first marriage to Ronald M. Foster Jr., ended in divorce in 1972. Her second marriage to Richard W. Wallach, a New York state appeals court justice, ended with his death in 2003.

At some point in her career Wallach turned to creative writing. Her debut novel, Women's Work, which incorporated her work experience, was published by the New American Library in 1981. She eventually left advertising to pursue a full-time writing career. Her later novels were Private Scores (1988) and Trials (1996). In 2009, at the age 0f 80, Wallach married a third time to Gerald Maslon, a long-term friend who was 84. Ms. Wallach died in 2018 at the age of 89 and was survived by her daughter Alison Foster, two sons, Thomas Foster and Alexander Foster; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.