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Mary Stanton (born 1947 in Winter Park, Florida) is an American author most famous for her eight-volume children's fantasy series Unicorns of Balinor.
- About Mary Stanton
- First Writing
- The Unicorns of Balinor
- Arianna, Princess of Balinor
- Beaufort and Company
- The Present and The Future
Mary Stanton came to professional writing in “middle age” after a variety of job experiences and a failed first marriage. She has been a prolific author, with nearly forty titles in her résumé. Mystery fantasy and crime novels are her specialties. She splits her writing between two personas, with almost half her output under the nom de plume, Claud...
After beginning work as a copywriter in the mid-1980s, Mary Stanton wrote her first novel, The Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West, in 1984. The sequel, Piper at the Gate, was released in 1989. She turned to professional fiction writing in 1994 when she left the copywriting industry and at this time began to write as her alter ego, Claudia Bisho...
Mary Stanton is best known for her young reader’s mystery series, The Unicorns of Balinor, which she began in 1999, with The Road to Balinor being the first in the series. 1999-2000 was the most prolific period in her writing career with the entire Balinor series of eight volumes being completed by the end of the year 2000. The series revolves arou...
The story begins with Arianna aged thirteen, living with her foster parents. Ari suffers from amnesia and is unaware of her royal heritage. The series revolves around the question as to whether she can regain her memory in time to save the kingdom from the evil forces of the Shifter. Arianna and Sunchaser face many tests and obstacles as they battl...
Known as “thrill and chill mysteries” of the paranormal genre, Mary Stanton excels with these tales of the ethereal. Brianna (Bree) Winston Beaufort is a lawyer extraordinary; a lawyer for the dead, the dead who need her help to achieve the justice denied to them while they were alive. The first volume in the series, Defending Angels, features a de...
Mary Stanton lives part of the year on her goat farm in upstate New York and the remainder in West Palm Beach, Florida. Her interests away from writing include her goats, horse riding, gourmet cooking which she claims to be not very good at, and gardening. Her writing career has not just involved mystery and crime novels. She has written on wide-ra...
Mar 20, 2024 · Almost twenty years after marrying Mary, Stanton married his second wife, Ellen Hutchison, in 1856. She came from a wealthy and prestigious Pennsylvania family, and they remained together until Stanton’s death. One of Edwin and Ellen’s two sons, James Hutchison Stanton, died in infancy in 1862, bringing further tragedy to Stanton’s life.
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Unicorns of Balinor. by Mary Stanton. 4.11 · 366 Ratings · 22 Reviews · published 2004 · 4 editions. Join the princess and her magical unicorn in their…. Want to Read. Rate it: The Road to Balinor (Unicorns of Balinor, #1), Sunchaser's Quest (Unicorns of Balinor, #2), Valley of Fear (Unicorns of Balinor, #3), By Fire, by Moonli...
Mary Stanton is the author of more than forty novels, including the well-loved Unicorns of Balinor series and the adult mystery series Beaufort & Company. As Claudia Bishop, she writes the popular Inn at Hemlock Falls mystery series, and The Casebooks of Dr. McKenzie.
Apr 15, 2012 · Stanton’s career as a fiction writer began with the publication of her first novel, The Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West, in 1984. A beast fable similar in tone and theme to Watership Down, it was published in the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan.
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