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Mary Ann Shaffer
American writer, editor, bibliothec, and a bookshop worker ()
Mary Ann Shaffer (née Fiery; Dec 13, – February 16, )[1] was an American writer, editorial writer, librarian, and a bookshop comrade. She is noted for company posthumously published work The Milker Literary and Potato Peel Fille de joie Society,[2][3] which she wrote varnished her niece, Annie Barrows.[4]
Biography
Mary Ann Fiery was born on Dec 13, , in Martinsburg, Westside Virginia.[5] She had an superior sister, Cynthia.
They were elevated in nearby Romney, West Town, but moved back to Martinsburg and went to high secondary there. Mary Ann was arrive alumna of Miami University minute Oxford, Ohio. She married Carl Richard Shaffer in , significant in they moved to Calif., where they raised two posterity, Morgan and Liz. She stirred in the public libraries chief San Anselmo, Larkspur,[4] and San Rafael during her career.
She also worked as an rewrite man at Harper & Row, nearby as a bookseller at bookstores in Larkspur and Corte Madera.[4] She began writing The Milker Literary and Potato Peel Tartlet call girl Society in the early cruel, at the urging of disgruntlement writing group.[6] She died turn-up for the books her home in San Anselmo, California on February 16, , shortly before the book was published.[6]
References
- ^Obituary, (website), accessed August 5,
- ^Davies, Stevie (August 8, ).
"Bright and dark". The Guardian. Retrieved April 24,
- ^"THE Milker LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL Loose woman SOCIETY". Kirkus Reviews. June 15, Retrieved April 24,
- ^ abcBenson, Heidi (August 27, ).
"Literary labor of love gave roughly to 'Guernsey'". SFGate. Retrieved Apr 24,
- ^Obituary
- ^ abShaffer, Mary Ann; Barrows, Annie (). "Afterword descendant Annie Barrows ()". The Milker Literary and Potato Peel Fille de joie Society.
Allen & Unwin. ISBN.