The Washington Post, September 29th, 2005
Mary Lee Settle, a National Book Award-winning novelist who founded the annual PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, died of lung cancer Sept. 27 at her home in Ivy, Va., near Charlottesville. She was 87. Best known for her "Beulah Quintet," a panoramic fictional series that explored the history of her native West Virginia, Ms. Settle published 15 novels and seven other books during her career. She was considered a "writer's writer" whose well-wrought works -- drawing on her worldwide travel, painstaking research and unerring ear for dialogue -- brought her literary respect if not always public accl...
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