Immagine dell'autore.

Mary Francis Shura (1923–1991)

Autore di Gentle Annie: The True Story of a Civil War Nurse

59+ opere 2,067 membri 13 recensioni 2 preferito

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Fonte dell'immagine: Mary Francis Young Shura Craig

Serie

Opere di Mary Francis Shura

Our Teacher is Missing (1992) 139 copie
The Search for Grissi (1985) 118 copie
Kate's Book (1989) 89 copie
Kate's House (1990) 81 copie
Marilee (1985) 78 copie
Jessica (1984) 75 copie
The Mystery at Wolf River (1989) 63 copie
Gabrielle (1987) 58 copie
Don't Call Me Toad! (1987) 58 copie
Diana (1988) 57 copie
The Josie Gambit (1986) 55 copie
Mister Wolf and Me (1979) 50 copie
Darcy (1989) 44 copie
Chester the Great (1980) 36 copie
Topcat of Tam (1972) 31 copie
Maggie in the Middle (1972) 21 copie
The Nearsighted Knight (1964) 18 copie
The Sunday Doll (1988) 17 copie
Mary's Marvellous Mouse (1962) 17 copie
Shoe full of shamrock (1965) 17 copie
A Loss of Innocence (1986) 15 copie
Tales from Dickens (1985) 15 copie
A Tale of Middle Length (1966) 14 copie
Polly Panic (1990) 10 copie
Happles and Cinnamunger (1981) 10 copie
The Wrong Side of Love (1985) 10 copie
Forbidden Love (1986) 9 copie
Eleanor (1983) 9 copie
Jefferson (1984) 8 copie
The Season of Silence (1976) 8 copie
Run Away Home (1965) 7 copie
Simple Spigott (1960) 7 copie
Backwards for Luck (1966) 6 copie
Were He a Stranger (1978) 6 copie
Pornada (1968) 6 copie
The Silent Witness (1983) 4 copie
Lyon's Pride (1983) 3 copie
Flash Point (1987) 3 copie
A Candle for the Dragon (1973) 3 copie
The Third Blonde (1985) 3 copie
To Play the Fox (1982) 3 copie
Pirate's Landing (1983) 3 copie
Fortune's Destiny (1986) 2 copie
Dark Paradise (1986) 2 copie
Gillian's Chain (1983) 2 copie
Dust to Diamonds (1981) 1 copia

Opere correlate

Sisters in Crime (1990) — Collaboratore — 125 copie
The Student Body | Flash Point | A City Called July (1987) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Nome legale
Young Shura Craig, Mary Francis
Altri nomi
Shura, Mary Francis
Craig, Mary
Hill, Alexis
Craig, M. S.
Shura Craig, Mary
Hill, Meredith (mostra tutto 8)
Craig, M. F.
Craig, Mary S.
Data di nascita
1923-02-23
Data di morte
1991-01-12
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di nascita
Pratt, Kansas, USA
Luogo di morte
Maywood, Illinois, USA
Luogo di residenza
Hinsdale, Illinois, USA
Attività lavorative
novelist
children's book author
romance novelist
mystery writer
Organizzazioni
Mystery Writers of America (president, 1990)
Breve biografia
Mary Francis Young was born on 23 February 1923 in Pratt, Kansas, the daughter of Jack Fant and Mary Francis (Milstead) Young. When she was very young, her family moved to the Pacific Northwest, where she raised. She studied at Maryville State College. On 24 October 1943, she married Daniel Charles Shura, who died in 1959. They had two children: Marianne Francis Shura (Spraguc) and Daniel Charles Shura. On 8 December 1961, she married Raymond C. Craig, they had a daughter Alice Barrett Craig (Stout), before their divorce.

Since 1960, she wrote over 50 books of various genres: children's adventures and teen-romances as Mary Francis Shura, M. F. Craig, and Meredith Hill; gothic novels as Mary Craig; romance novels as Alexis Hill, Mary Shura Craig and Mary S. Craig; and suspense novels as M. S. Craig.

Her children's novel "The Search for Grissi" received the Carl Sandburg Literary Arts Award in 1985, and she also was nominated to the Young Hoosier Book Award. In 1990, she was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America.

She lived in Hinsdale, Illinois, where her apartment burned on 13 December 1990. At 67, she died of injuries suffered in the fire on 12 January 1991 in Loyola University Medical Burn Center in Maywood.

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Emmy is dreading turning 13 - there isn't a single teenager that isn't awful. She thinks of the transformation of her giggling older sister and fun brother into plastic people acting perfect or spouting advertisements instead of words. Her best friend in the whole world turned 13 recently and their friendship is hitting the rocks. Worse than her impending birthday for Emmy though, is the way her parents and Jayne, her older sister, have been acting around her. Something is going on and no one will tell her anything.

This was really well-written and sensitive picture of a girl facing adult problems for the first time. Emmy doesn't want to grow up, it's true, but she resents being kept in the dark about important family business. She refers to it as being "sent out to the lobby for M&Ms" so she misses a scary or 'grown-up' scene of a movie. The title of the book comes from the birthday gift her beloved Aunt Harriet sends her. It's a different doll every year, but Emmy at first sees the faceless Amish doll as yet another sign of the adults treating her like a child. The doll instead represents something else, but it takes Emmy awhile to understand the message.

An excellent book - but skittish parents should beware that the family secrets Emmy learns are not child's play. Shura doesn't pull any punches here, and it makes for an excellent book about coming of age without any of the usual veils or metaphors.
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ManWithAnAgenda | Oct 2, 2020 |
A fictionalized biography of Anna Blair Ethridge, a Union Army nurse.
 
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wichitafriendsschool | 1 altra recensione | Mar 25, 2016 |
good mystery Mail Room - lost articles Angie + Nina

Reclusive young Angie Bromley and 50-ish, warmhearted busybody Nina Haywood work together in the dead-letter department of a metropolitan post office, trying to trace owners of credit cards, keys and other odds and ends thrown into mailboxes. Nina is at work on a photo case--which holds pictures of three different blondes--when she takes her afternoon break, trudges to the coffee shop owned by her gruff, loving fiance Charlie B., and is found murdered two days later. Angie's shock isn't eased by the loutish behavior of Nina's greedy son Kenny, a break-in at Nina's house, and the (maybe accidental) death of photographer Perry Wheeling, a longtime enemy of Nina's.… (altro)
 
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christinejoseph | 1 altra recensione | Sep 14, 2015 |

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Statistiche

Opere
59
Opere correlate
2
Utenti
2,067
Popolarità
#12,434
Voto
½ 3.4
Recensioni
13
ISBN
105
Lingue
3
Preferito da
2

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