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Mary Lee Settle (July 29, 1918 - September 27, 2005) was an United States|American writer and winner of the National Book Award for her 1978 novel Blood Tie. She was also one of the founders of the annual PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Settle was born in Charleston, West Virginia. She attended Sweet Briar College for two years, then moved to New York City in pursuit of a career as an actress and model, and is said to have tested for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. Settle lived for many years in Canada, in England, and in Turkey. Settle is most famous for a series of novels called the "Beulah Quintet", which cover the history of West Virginia, and thus by implication, the United States. She also wrote several works of non-fiction. She died of lung cancer in Ivy, Virginia, near Charlottesville.
US-writer-stub Category:1918 births|Settle, Mary Lee Category:2005 deaths|Settle, Mary Lee Category:People from West Virginia|Settle, Mary Lee Category:Women writers|Settle, Mary Lee Category:American novelists|Settle, Mary Lee This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Mary Lee Settle".
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