Mary Lee Settle

Mary Lee Settle
Mary Lee Settle
Mary Lee Settle
Born(1918-07-29)July 29, 1918
Charleston, West Virginia, U.S.
DiedSeptember 27, 2005(2005-09-27) (aged 87)
Ivy, Virginia, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSweet 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]

  1. ^ "Mary Lee Settle". NNDb.com. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
  2. ^ "National Book Awards – 1978". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
    (With essay by Rebecca Wolff from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
  3. ^ Matt Schudel (September 29, 2005). "Novelist Mary Lee Settle; Founded PEN/Faulkner Award". Washington Post. p. B07.