Mary Lee Settle (July 29, 1918 Charleston, West Virginia - September 27, 2005 Ivy, Virginia) was an American writer and winner of the National Book Award for her 1978 novel Blood Tie. She was also one of the founders of the annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
She attended Sweet Briar College for two years, then moved to New York City in pursuit of a career as an actress and model, and even tested for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with th...
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Mary Lee Settle (July 29, 1918 Charleston, West Virginia - September 27, 2005 Ivy, Virginia) was an American writer and winner of the National Book Award for her 1978 novel Blood Tie. She was also one of the founders of the annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
She attended Sweet Briar College for two years, then moved to New York City in pursuit of a career as an actress and model, and even tested for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. During World War II, she joined the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and then the Office of War Information. She taught at Bard College, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and University of Virginia.
Settle lived for many years in Canada, in England, and in Turkey.
Settle is most famous for a series of novels called the "Beulah Quintet", {Prisons, O Beulah Land, Know Nothing, The Scapegoat, The Killing Ground) which cover the history of West Virginia, and by extension, the United States. She also wrote several works of non-fiction.
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