Mary Lee Settle | |
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Born | Charleston, West Virginia, U.S. | July 29, 1918
Died | September 27, 2005 Ivy, Virginia, U.S. | (aged 87)
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Sweet Briar College |
Spouses | Rodney Weathersbee
(m. 1939; div. 1946)Douglas Newton
(m. 1946; div. 1956)William Tazewell (m. 1978) |
Mary Lee Settle (July 29, 1918 – September 27, 2005) was an American writer.[1]
She won the 1978 National Book Award for her novel Blood Tie.[2] She was a founder of the annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.[3]