Mary Lee Settle

Mary Lee Settle
Mary Lee Settle
Born(1918-07-29)July 29, 1918
Charleston, West Virginia, U.S.
DiedSeptember 27, 2005(2005-09-27) (aged 87)
Ivy, Virginia, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSweet Briar College
Spouses
Rodney Weathersbee
(m. 1939; div. 1946)
    Douglas Newton
    (m. 1946; div. 1956)
      William Tazewell
      (m. 1978)

      Mary Lee Settle (July 29, 1918 – September 27, 2005) was an American writer.

      She won the 1978 National Book Award for her novel Blood Tie. She was a founder of the annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.