A member of the National Book Critics Council, she writes a column for the Beverly Hills Courtier.
She earned a B.A. from Wellesley College, Massachusetts, in 1953, where she was awarded the Davenport Prize for Speech and Literature.
She worked as an editor for "Writer" magazine in Boston before moving to Los Angeles with her husband, Leslie H. Martinson.
Prior to parlaying her love of literature into a self-financed TV series, Connie Martinson Talks Books (1980), she was involved in public relations for the Con Foundation and taught at UCLA and the University of Judaism.