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Mary Doria Russell

USA  (1950 - )
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About Mary Doria Russell
Mary Doria Russell was born in the suburbs of Chicago. Her parents were both in the military: her father was a Marine Corps drill instructor, and her mother was a Navy nurse. She graduated from Glenbard East High School and later she earned a Ph.D in biological anthropology at the University of Michigan. She was raised as a Catholic but left the church at age fifteen, and her struggles to figure out how much of that culture to pass on to her children fueled the prominence of religion in her work.

Russell currently lives in Lyndhurst, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, with her husband, Don. They have a son, Dan
 
Series
The SparrowChildren of God
 
Awards
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1997) : The Sparrow
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Novel winner (1998) : The Sparrow
British Science Fiction Association Best Novel winner (1998) : The Sparrow
John W. Campbell Best New Author winner (1998)
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1999) : Children of God


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Mary Doria Russell recommends
My Father's Ghost
My Father's Ghost (2002)
Suzy McKee Charnas
"My Father's Ghost will resonate for anyone who's hoped a parent would leave behind an emotional Rosetta Stone to decode. "
The Fall of the Kings
The Fall of the Kings (2002)
Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
"Gorgeous prose and a galloping story, with...a deep understanding of a true scholar's passion for his subject."
The Sojourn
The Sojourn (2011)
Andrew Krivak
"The Sojourn is a work of uncommon strength by a writer of rare and powerful elegance about a war, now lost to living memory, that echoes in headlines of international strife to this day."



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