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- Mary McGarry Morris was born in 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Mary McGarry is a writer, known for A Dangerous Woman (1993), Conquering Space (1990) and Songs in Ordinary Time (2000).
- Has five children with her husband, Mike, a lawyer.
- Thanks to promotion by Oprah Winfrey, her third novel, "Songs in Ordinary Time" (Viking/Penguin, 1995), sold 1.5 million copies. After receiving the phone call from Oprah to notify her that the novel would be mentioned on The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986), Morris at first thought it was a prank.
- Her first novel, "Vanished" (Viking/Penguin, 1988), took years to write and was not published until she was 45, but became a big success and was nominated for both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award.
- "I am not part of any literary world. And I have no desire to move into a literary world. I am wary of letting an aura take the place of the effort of writing." (New York Times, Jan. 28, 1991)
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