Mary Monroe
Mary Monroe, the daughter of sharecroppers, is the award winning and New York Times bestselling
author of the God Don’t Like Ugly series and many other novels. She is the winner of the PEN/
Oakland Josephine Miles Award, the Best Southern Literature Award, and the Maya Angelou
Lifetime Achievement Award. Mary lives in Oakland, California.
E-mail her at [email protected] and visit her
website at www.Marymonroe.org.
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