AKA Mary Ward

Born: 18-Jun-1917
Birthplace: Hamburg, AL
Died: 14-May-2013
Location of death: Marion, AL
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Tongues of Flame

Father: Thomas Ward (cotton farmer)
Mother: Mary Hubbard (d. cancer)
Husband: Charles Kirtley Brown (m. 1939, d. 1970 lung cancer, one son)
Son: Kirtley Ward Brown (b. 1942)

    University: BA, Judson College Alabama (1938)

    PEN/Hemingway Award 1987 for Tongues of Flame
    Hillsdale Fiction Prize 2003

Author of books:
Tongues of Flame (1986, short stories)
It Wasn't All Dancing and Other Stories (2002, short stories)
Fanning the Spark: A Memoir (2009, memoir)

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