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May 16, 2014 · By Anita Gates. May 15, 2014. Mary Stewart, the British author of romantic thrillers who jumped genres in her 50s to create an internationally best-selling trilogy of Merlin books, reimagining the ...
Aug 11, 2020 · Mary Stewart is a mid-century British author who helped establish the romantic suspense genre in the 1950s, and contributed to the resurgence of the fantasy novel in the 1970s with her Merlin trilogy. She is a gifted and classy writer with a long career, and I can’t wait for you to “meet” her now!
Mary Stewart Cutting Jr. was born in New Jersey, where she became a well-known suffragist. [2] She was also the author of magazine and newspaper articles. According to her New York Times obituary, she died on February 11, 1928, in Manhattan, New York City, after being ill for a month. [4]
May 17, 2014 · Mary Stewart was one of the great British storytellers of the 20th century. Her career encompassed many genres, from Mills and Boon, via Baroness Orczy and Georgette Heyer to Philip Pullman, JK ...
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas. The Wind Off the Small Isles. (1968) Description / Buy at Amazon. The Wind Off the Small Isles and The Lost One. (2017) Description / Buy at Amazon. A British author, Mary Stewart was an institution during her time, largely focusing on the romantic mystery genre for much of her long, extensive and ...
In Stewart's obituary, The New York Times described her as an "author of romantic thrillers who jumped genres in her 50s to create an internationally best-selling trilogy of Merlin books, reimagining the Arthurian legend from a sorcerer's point of view," and said, "Reading Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, she was inspired ...
Mary Cholmondeley was born at Hodnet near Market Drayton in Shropshire, the third of eight children of Rev Richard Hugh Cholmondeley (1827–1910) and his wife Emily Beaumont (1831–1893). Her great-uncle was a hymn-writing bishop, Reginald Heber , and her niece a writer, Stella Benson .
