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Mary Lee Settle
Mary Lee Settle (July 29, 1918 – September 27, 2005) was an American writer.
She won the 1978 National Book Award for her novel Blood Tie. She was a founder of the annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Settle was born in Charleston, West Virginia, the daughter of Joseph Edward and Rachel Tompkins Settle. According to one report her father was a civil engineer in charge of worker safety at coal mines. According to another he owned a coal mine in Kentucky; Mary spent her childhood in Pineville, Kentucky, interrupted by a period in Florida when her father, drawn by the Florida land rush, participated in the design of Venice, Florida. Her family returned to Cedar Grove, West Virginia, where she spent her teenage years living with her grandmother at The William Tompkins House. After two years at Sweet Briar College, she 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.
She married the Englishman Rodney Weathersbee in 1939 and moved to England. The couple had a son, Christopher Weatherbee. During World War II, she joined the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and then the Office of War Information. She divorced her first husband in 1946 and married the Englishman Douglas Newton from whom she divorced in 1956.
Upon returning to the US she started her writing career. She would later teach at Bard College, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and University of Virginia.
She lived for many years in Canada, in England, and in Turkey.
In 1978, when she was 60, she married William L. Tazewell, an American writer and historian. He died in 1998.
Settle wrote a wide variety of works, including non-fiction, but is most famous for a series of novels she called the Beulah Quintet. They cover the history of the development of people from seventeenth-century England to modern West Virginia: "In them she transferred the European tradition of a continuing fictional-historical saga to an American medium."
Mary Lee Settle
Mary Lee Settle (July 29, 1918 – September 27, 2005) was an American writer.
She won the 1978 National Book Award for her novel Blood Tie. She was a founder of the annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Settle was born in Charleston, West Virginia, the daughter of Joseph Edward and Rachel Tompkins Settle. According to one report her father was a civil engineer in charge of worker safety at coal mines. According to another he owned a coal mine in Kentucky; Mary spent her childhood in Pineville, Kentucky, interrupted by a period in Florida when her father, drawn by the Florida land rush, participated in the design of Venice, Florida. Her family returned to Cedar Grove, West Virginia, where she spent her teenage years living with her grandmother at The William Tompkins House. After two years at Sweet Briar College, she 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.
She married the Englishman Rodney Weathersbee in 1939 and moved to England. The couple had a son, Christopher Weatherbee. During World War II, she joined the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and then the Office of War Information. She divorced her first husband in 1946 and married the Englishman Douglas Newton from whom she divorced in 1956.
Upon returning to the US she started her writing career. She would later teach at Bard College, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and University of Virginia.
She lived for many years in Canada, in England, and in Turkey.
In 1978, when she was 60, she married William L. Tazewell, an American writer and historian. He died in 1998.
Settle wrote a wide variety of works, including non-fiction, but is most famous for a series of novels she called the Beulah Quintet. They cover the history of the development of people from seventeenth-century England to modern West Virginia: "In them she transferred the European tradition of a continuing fictional-historical saga to an American medium."