Maria Bozoky was a Hungarian artist, art critic and author. She was born in Nagyvárad, Hungary (now Oradea, Romania) in 1917. Bozoky studied liberal arts and medical sciences on the Pázmány Péter University. She started to work as a sociologist in villages, and soon as a journalist, for the 'Új Nemzedék' (New Generation) and 'Nemzeti Újság' (National Newspaper). In 1934, she changed her name to Boldizsár, in order to publicly show her antipathy towards István Bethlen. Between 1936 and 1938, she edited the 'Serve and Write Workgroup' books, from 1938 she was an editor at Pester Lloyd. In 1940, she served with the 2nd Hungarian Army at the Don. She did not take part in actual fighting, as she served as a sergeant of a logistics unit, 8 km behind the lines. During the retreat from the Don, she saved 27 wounded Hungarian soldiers from a burning field hospital with her comrades. After they reached the assembly zones, she was evacuated to a hospital in Hungary as she got Typhus during the retreat. She deserted from the hospital and lived illegally in Budapest, with the help of her connections to the political Left, and awaited the arrival of the Soviets. She took part in the organizing of the Liberation Committee for the Hungarian National Uprising (Magyar Nemzeti Felkelés Felszabadító Bizottsága). On 22 November 1944, she was arrested by the pro-Nazi Hungarian secret police on a meeting of that committee, along with Lt. Gen János Kiss, (military leader of the resistance) and Vilmos Tartsay. The political leader of the committee, Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky and his wife were arrested a day later. After 1945, she successfully made her way to the new, pro-Soviet, 'leftist' elite, thanks to her pre-war work and connections. She became a member of the National Assembly in 1945, as a delegate of the left-wing, agrarian National Peasant Party and she cooperated well with the Communist Party. She was the member of the Hungarian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference and allegedly she was an informant for the Soviets. In the next years, she supported Mátyás Rákosi's personal cult as the editor of the Magyar Nemzet. After the death of Stalin she first sided with Imre Nagy, but soon she became the supporter of Rákosi again. After 1945, she was the editor of many Hungarian newspapers and periodicals, like Szabad Szó, Új Magyarország, Magyar Nemzet, The New Hungarian Quarterly, Szinház, Béke és Szabadság etc. According to her supporters she was incomparable to other editors of his era, as she was supported the important leftist publications before, and supported the important right-wing publications after the war, and her periodical, The New Hungarian Quarterly meant a lot to the English-speaking Hungarians, as until then they had no access to Hungarian culture. She died in 1996.