Mary Lee Settle

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1955
  • Latest Book:
    April 2001
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Mary Lee Settle was an American writer.

Born: July 29, 1918 in Charleston, WV

Died: September 27, 2005 in Ivy, VA of lung cancer while writing her last book at the age of 87.

She won the 1978 National Book Award for her novel Blood Tie and was a founder of the annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

She tested for the part of Sarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.

Full Series List in Order

Beulah Quintet

1 - Prisons (Jan-1973)
2 - O Beulah Land (Jan-1974)
3 - Know Nothing (Oct-1981)
4 - The Scapegoat (Sep-1980)
5 - The Killing Ground (Jun-1982)

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • The Kiss of Kin

  • Fight Night on a Sweet Saturday

  • Pride's Promise

  • The Clam Shell

  • Prisons

    Beulah Quintet - 1

    An unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture,class, identity, and the meaning of freedomPrisons, the first volume of The Beulah Quintet -- Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture...

  • O Beulah Land

    Beulah Quintet - 2

    O Beulah Land, the second volume of The Beulah Quintet -- Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom -- is a land-hungry story. It follows the odyssey of Johnn...

  • Blood Tie

    In a novel that begins with accidental death and ends with deliberate murder, Mary Lee Settle tells the story of an eclectic collection of American and European expatriates who take refuge in an ancient Turkish city and, once there, wreak havoc on th...

  • The Scapegoat

    Beulah Quintet - 4

    Set in 1912, The Scapegoat propels readers towards a fateful day in a coal miners' strike when distant relatives of the Beulah dynasty, only dimly aware of their blood ties, face off in a dispute that escalates into a frenzy of violence and ends in ...

  • Know Nothing

    Beulah Quintet - 3

    Set in the decades preceding the Civil War, this third volume of The Beulah Quintet - Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom - tells the tragic tale of Per...



  • The Killing Ground

    Beulah Quintet - 5

    In 1978 Hannah McKarkle returns to her hometown of Canona, West Virginia, where she sets out to remove the mystery that has surrounded her brother's murder for over 20 years. Her search for truth reveals a heritage that extends back to Johnny Church ...

  • Celebration

    One of Mary Lee Settle's richest and most compassionate novels, Celebration chronicles the love affair of a widowed American anthropologist and a Scottish geologist who meet in the British Museum. Set in 1969, the novel also tells the intertwining ta...

  • The Love Eaters

  • Charley Bland

    In this moving and brilliant narrative of doomed love, Mary Lee Settle tells a triangular affair set in the small town of Canona, West Virginia. The novel's narrator, a thirty-five-year-old widow and writer, returns from a self-imposed European exile...

  • Choices

    When Melinda Kregg, a young southern belle, witnesses the bloody Kentucky mining strikes of the 1930s, her innocence is shattered. This saga chronicles her joys, sorrows, and ministrations to the social wound on her journey through the maelstrom of t...

  • I, Roger Williams

    A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001 and a Washington Post Book World 2001 Rave.

    In this beautiful and feelingly written book, Mary Lee Settle tells the story of Roger Williams: the most compelling figure in colonial America. Plucked from obs...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mary Lee Settle has published 15 books.

Mary Lee Settle does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, I, Roger Williams, was published in April 2001.

The first book by Mary Lee Settle, The Kiss of Kin, was published in October 1955.

Yes. Mary Lee Settle has 1 series.
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