Favorite Books
The Master by Colm Toibin; Portrait of a Lady/The Ambassadors by Henry James; Pride & Prejudice/Persuasion by Jane Austen; The Illusionist by Paul Auster
What I'm Reading
All A Novelist Needs by Colm Tobin; Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick; A Private Life of Henry James by Lyndall Gordon
Favorite Authors
Henry James, Jane Austen, Paul Auster, Colm Toibin, Mary Stewart
Influences
Henry James, Jane Austen, Michael Gruber, Anne Lemott, Jane Smiley, Margaret Atwood
About mary
Twenty-plus years writing in corporate communications, some published poetry, short-story firsts, went on to novels about ten years ago. My first published historical novel, J-The Woman Who Wrote the Bible, from O-Books in the UK, came out in July 2010....
Causes mary burns Supports
Marine Mammal Center, Sausalito, CA
mary’s Favorite Books
The Master by Colm Toibin; Portrait of a Lady/The Ambassadors by Henry James; Pride & Prejudice/Persuasion by Jane Austen; The Illusionist by Paul Auster