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Mary Doria Russell

An experimental writer who often grapples with religion in her writing, Mary Doria Russell has found inspiration in historical events from World War II to the OK Corral. Russell began as a biological and cultural anthropologist, focusing her 1983 PhD dissertation at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on forensic analysis of Neanderthal biological features and burial practices. After many years of spiritual seeking, she converted to Judaism in 1993. In 1996 she published her first novel, The Sparrow, which drew on her Italian-Catholic heritage and anthropological training to imagine a Jesuit mission to an alien world. The book earned her numerous awards, including the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the British Science Fiction Association Award. She then turned to historical fiction: 2005’s A Thread of Grace, set in Italy during World War II, 2008’s Dreamers of the Day, which focused on the interwar negotiations that created the modern Middle East, and Doc (2011) and Epitaph (2015), which recovered and embellished the

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Mary Doria Russell

Goodreads Author

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in The United States

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http://www.marydoriarussell.net/

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction

Member Since

November 2011

URL

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Mary Doria Russell is an American author. She was born in 1950 in the suburbs of Chicago. Her parents were both in the military; her father was a Marine Corps drill sergeant, and her mother was a Navy nurse.

She holds a Ph.D. in Paleoanthropology from the University of Michigan, and has also studied cultural anthropology at the University of Illinois, and social anthropology at Northeastern University in Boston. Russell lives in Cleveland, Ohio with her husband Don and their two dogs.

Mary is shy about online stuff like Goodreads, but she responds to all email, and would prefer to do that through her website.

Photo by Jeff Rooks

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Interview

Mary Doria Russell talks about her extraordinary novel, The Thread of Grace.

I am a big fan of your novels. What took so long for a new one?
I've become a dues-paying member of the sandwich generation while writing this book. Like many Baby Boomers, I'm helping elderly and infirm relatives through illnesses and bereavement, just as my teenage son is learning to drive, starting to date, getting his heart broken, applying for summer jobs and college. My own health did a power-dive, and that episode took a two-year chunk out of my life. Thank God, my husband has been healthy all this time, so the household has run fairly smoothly!

Even without all that, A Thread of Grace would have been a bear. None of the characters are American, and the story is set in World War II Italy, so I am not drawing on my own language, culture or personal experiences at all. A dear friend advised me to finesse the issue: "Just have everyone say Ciao a lot and eat pasta!" But WWII is living memory and a topic of lively sc