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- Birth nameMary Florence Elinor Rainbow
- Mary Stewart was born on August 17, 1916 in Sunderland, Durham, England, UK. She was a writer, known for The Moon-Spinners (1964), Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017) and The Magical World of Disney (1954). She was married to Frederick Henry Stewart. She died on May 9, 2014 in Lochawe, Scotland, UK.
- SpouseFrederick Henry Stewart(1945 - December 9, 2001) (his death)
- Living in a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, in the mid-1970s, she called herself "an ordinary housewife" with "a house and a husband and a garden and a cat to love and look after."
- One of three children of Frederick A. Rainbow, a clergyman, and Mary Edith Rainbow, a New Zealand missionary. Mary began teaching in the late 1930s, but quit in 1956 to concentrate on writing novels. Her husband, Sir Frederick Henry Stewart (1916-2001), was a professor of geology at the University of Edinburgh.
- The preeminent and very popular writer of the romantic thriller. Her heroines, who usually narrate the story in first-person, are intelligent and capable, and her heroes are handsome but ordinary guys thrust into challenging situations. Her great contribution to the thriller is disposing of the conventional helpless heroine.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 130, pp. 377-382. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- As far back as I can remember I have written poems and stories, but my professional writing life began in 1954. I started my first novel, "Madam, Will You Talk?" in 1952, with no intention of publishing it, but my husband persuaded me to send it away, and it was accepted. Before this I had had literary articles and poems published, but had never thought of publishing stories.
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