Name Mary Settle Role Writer | Movies The Pleasure Garden Children Christopher Weathersbee | |
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Died September 27, 2005, Ivy, Virginia, United States Spouse William L. Tazewell (m. 1978–1998), Douglas Newton (m. 1946–1956), Rodney Weathersbee (m. 1939–1946) Parents Joseph Edward Settle, Rachel Tompkins Books O Beulah land, Blood Tie, Turkish Reflections, Addie, Prisons | ||
Mary Lee Settle was an American writer.
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She won the 1978 National Book Award for her novel Blood Tie and was a founder of the annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Life
She attended Sweet Briar College for two years, then moved to New York City in pursuit of a career as an actress and model, and tested for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind.
During World War II, she joined the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and then the Office of War Information. She taught at Bard College, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and University of Virginia. She lived for many years in Canada, in England, and in Turkey.
Settle is most famous for a series of novels called The Beulah Quintet (Prisons, O Beulah Land, Know Nothing, The Scapegoat, The Killing Ground), which cover the history of West Virginia. She wrote several works of non-fiction.
Death
She died of lung cancer in Ivy, Virginia on September 27, 2005, aged 87, while writing her last book.