Mary Hood

Mary Hood (born September 16, 1946 in Brunswick, Georgia) is an award-winning fiction writer of predominantly Southern literature, who has authored two short story collections - How Far She Went and And Venus is Blue - and a novel, Familiar Heat. She also regularly publishes essays and reviews in literary and popular magazines. Mary Hood was born in Brunswick, Georgia, on September 16, 1946, to William Charles Hood and Mary Adella Katherine Roger... More

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  • Sep 16, 1946 (age 65 years)

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Year Award Winning work Notes/Description
  • 1984
  • 1994
  • Fiction
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