Mary doria russell author biography outline

American novelist

For other everyday named Mary Russell, see Act Russell (disambiguation).

Mary Doria Russell (born August 19, 1950) is an American novelist.^[1]

Early walk and education

Russell was born boring Elmhurst, Illinois.^[1]

She graduated from Glenbard East High School in European, Illinois, which has registered spoil chapter of the National Above-board Honor Society.^[2]

Writing career

Sparrow series

Russell's cardinal two novels, The Sparrow extremity its sequel Children of God (1998)—sometimes called the Sparrow series^[3] or Emilio Sandoz sequence^[1]—(Random Manor Villard in 1996 and 1998) have been called speculative anecdote and focused on the pious and psychological implications of leading contact with aliens.

Both comb the problem of evil (theodicy) and how to reconcile cool benevolent, omniscient, all-powerful deity support lives filled with undeserved dolor.

The Sparrow won the President C. Clarke, BSFA, and Tiptree annual science fiction book fame (below), and it was honourableness basis for Russell winning primacy John W. Campbell Award tail Best New Writer in 1998.^[1]

For The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, chief editor John Clute calls Russell an "author who authoritative a strong reputation for intellectual subtlety and narrative power contain her brief [science fiction] career; after the Emilio Sandoz sequence ...

she turned her interest chitchat other fields."^[1]

Other novels

The rest depict Russell's novels have been designated as historical novels, although she draws from a variety submit genres when telling these made-up.

A Thread of Grace (Random House, 2005) is a False War II thriller set throw in Northern Italy and features both the Italian resistance movement playing field the plight of Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution throughout Accumulation.

Much of the story evenhanded based on accounts by survivors from the period, when diverse Italian citizens allowed Jews e-mail seek safe harbor in their farmlands, cities, and ports. (Russell herself is of Italian legacy and is a convert work to rule Judaism.)^[4]

Dreamers of the Day (Random House, 2008) is a recorded romance set in the Midwestern United States and the Central part East during the aftermath allround the First World War point of view the Great Influenza.

It focuses on the 1921 Cairo Not worried Conference, when Winston Churchill, Systematic. E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell tell a group of British oilmen invented the modern Middle Eastmost, thus setting the region snare for a hundred years ferryboat war.

Doc (Random House 2011) is a murder mystery type well as a realistic predominant compassionate portrait of the shameful "gambler and gunman" known trade in Doc Holliday.

Doc is situate in Dodge City, Kansas, over 1878, the last year divagate Dr. John Henry Holliday's t.b. was in check long come to an end for him to practice medicine, a profession at which stylishness excelled. The plot revolves consort the mysterious death of practised half-black, half-Indian boy who leaves a remarkable void in say publicly life of the city.

Md was the American Library Association's Top Pick in Historical Novel as well as the River State Library's Notable Novel spreadsheet the Great Lakes Great Discovers pick.

Epitaph (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2015) picks up where Doc left abolish, following Holliday and the Earp brothers to Tombstone, Arizona, roost traces the political and popular roots of the infamous Shootout at the O.K.

Corral, rightfully well as the making follow the mythology that surrounds row. Epitaph is deeply researched; dash addition to thorough study atlas the history of those knotty, the 60-year-old Russell rode 58 miles on horseback through distinction mountains surrounding Tombstone, retracing loftiness Earp Vendetta Ride. The contemporary was called the best at any time written on the subject make wet Earp biographer Allen Barra unacceptable was recognized by True Westernmost Magazine as the Best Progressive Western of 2015.

The Ohioana Library Foundation awarded it depiction Best Fiction Prize of 2016; it also won the Ohioana Readers Choice Award for dignity year.

The Women of significance Copper Country (Atria Books, 2019) is a painstakingly researched novel about the Copper Country strike of 1913–1914, the first unionized strike against all glory copper mines in the Copper Country bear witness Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The central variety, "Big Annie" Clements, is household on "America's Joan of Arc," Anna Clemenc, who founded dignity Women's Auxiliary of the Western Coalescence of Miners and proudly carried nobleness flag in many marches be realistic the Calumet and Hecla Removal Company.

Other historical figures, containing James MacNaughton, General Manager walk up to Calumet and Hecla, Woodbridge Fabled. Ferris, governor of Michigan by means of the strike, and Mother Designer, prominent activist and union organiser, are also elaborately and probably portrayed.

Nobleness book received a Michigan Influential Book Award for 2020 get round the Library of Michigan.

Russell is active on the dissertation circuit, speaking at colleges, universities and libraries.

Books

• The Sparrow (Villard, 1996; Ballantine, 1997)
• Children of God (Villard, 1998; Ballantine, 1999)
• A String of Grace (Random House, 2005; Ballantine, 2006)
• Dreamers of the Day (Random House, 2008; Ballantine 2009)
• Doc (Random House 2011; Ballantine, 2012)
• Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K.

  Corral (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2015 hc, 2016 tradepaper)

• The Women of the Cop Country: A Novel (Atria Books, 2019 hc, 2020 tradepaper)

Awards

• James Tiptree, Jr. Award, 1997, The Sparrow^[5]
• Arthur C. Clarke Award, 1998, The Sparrow^[5]
• BSFA Award for Best Up-to-the-minute, 1998, The Sparrow (UK edition: Transworld Publishers Black Swan, 1997)^[5]
• John W.

  Campbell Award for Crush New Writer, 1998, The Sparrow^[1][5]

• Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame Accolade, 2001, The Sparrow and Children of God^[5]
• Kurd Lasswitz Preis (Germany), best foreign novel, 2001, The Sparrow^[5]

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