Joanne (Taggart) Stang

JoAnne's father was Matthew John Taggart, 1879-1955, and her mother was Mary Winifred Mallon, 1884-1975 She had siblings Mary "Mildred" and Vincent George. According to the 1930 federal census, "Joan" (sic) was age 4 and living with her family in Brookly NY. The household included her parents, Vincent, age 18, and Mildred, age 19. Father Matthew was a steamfitter as was son Vincent In 1949, JoAnne married Arnold Stang, an actor, and they had a son and a daughter. From Find A Grave: "Journalist and author. She started working at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle while in high school, then continued to work as a reporter while she took classes at New York University and the New School for Social Research. She proceeded to write profiles of celebrities in the arts for the New York Times -- including of her eventual husband, actor Arnold Stang. Mrs. Stang also released two books: the novel "Shadows on the Sceptered Isle" in 1979 and “Marathon Mom: The Wife and Mother Running Book,” a non-fiction book co-authored by Linda Schreiber, in 1980. Stang's son, David, described her as "someone who loved words and loved writing." Her parents were Matthew Taggart and Mary Mallon Taggart. This biography was derived from Bryan Marquard's September 24, 2017 article from the Boston Globe, "JoAnne Stang, 91, an early master of the celebrity profile."