Margaret Maron - Author
Reading & Book Signing
In the Gazebo of Fuquay Mineral Spring Inn
on Saturday, November 9, 2002
between 10:00 am and 12 noon
"From the time I was a little girl and first
realized there was a connection between ordinary people and the
printed page, I have wanted to write. I was born and bred in North
Carolina, dropped out of college to marry a naval officer I met
while working in the Pentagon, then lived in Italy and New York
for the next few years until we returned to my family's homeplace.
We had a son, life was full, yet all the time, I kept promising
myself that I was going to be a writer "someday."
Eventually, with the passing years, I realized
that if I didn't get down to it, the dream would never happen on
its own. Poetry was my first love and continues to enchant me, but
when I began writing seriously, short stories seemed to be my
natural form.
"For
the first twelve years of my professional life, it never occurred
to me that I could write books. I was totally intimidated by the
long form. But circumstances prevailed. The short story market
dried up in the late '70s and I backed into the novel by doubling
a short story three separate times until I finally had enough
pages to call it a book.
"Since then, I've done it sixteen more times,
yet I'm still intimidated and still face each new book with the
fear that I won't be able to pull it off again."
Margaret Maron's works have been translated into
seven languages and are on the reading lists of various courses in
contemporary Southern literature. They have also been nominated
for every major award in the American mystery field.
She is a founding member of Sisters in Crime and
served as its third president. She is also a past president of the
American Crime Writers League, and past member of the national
board of Mystery Writers of America.
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