The Virginian Pilot, October 1st, 2005
Byline: ANITA GATES
By ANITA GATES
The New York Times
Mary Lee Settle, a master of historical fiction who re- created time and place with visceral, almost fanatical accuracy, died Tuesday at a hospice in Charlottesville. She was 87 and made her home in Charlottesville.
The cause was lung cancer, said her son, Christopher Weathersbee.
Settle, who was a National Book Award winner and the author of the novels known as "The Beulah Quintet," explained her research process in an introduction to "O Beulah Land," the first in an interconnected five-book saga that spanned three centuries, from C...
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