Mary Francis Shura (1923–1991)
Autore di Gentle Annie: The True Story of a Civil War Nurse
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Fonte dell'immagine: Mary Francis Young Shura Craig
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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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- Opere
- 59
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 2,067
- Popolarità
- #12,434
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 13
- ISBN
- 105
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 2
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.… (altro)