Mary Beth Keane
Mary Beth Keane is the author of The Walking People (2009) and Fever (2013), about the life of Typhoid Mary. She attended Barnard College and the University of Virginia, where she received an MFA in Fiction. In 2011, she was named one of the National Book Foundation's 5 under 35. She lives just...
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Mary Beth Keane is the author of The Walking People (2009) and Fever (2013), about the life of Typhoid Mary. She attended Barnard College and the University of Virginia, where she received an MFA in Fiction. In 2011, she was named one of the National Book Foundation's 5 under 35. She lives just outside New York City with her husband and their two sons.
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Birth date: July 03
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I Picked Up This Book Because: Tonight Show book club read The Characters: Kate Gleeson: Peter Stanhope: Francis, Lena, Sara, Natalie Gleeson, Ann and Brian Stanhope, George Stanhope The Story: What a freakin let down. I expected something much more dramatic. A lot happened to these characters ...
This family drama is told in uncomplicated prose and yet is heartfelt and moving. It's a novel about regular people who make mistakes, who may get hurt by and hurt other people as well, however unintentionally. Some characters you initially sympathize with may seem off-putting later, or the other wa...
The famous story of Mary Mallon, aka Typhoid Mary, has captured our attention over the past century. Some of the most intriguing questions that her story conjures up are: Did Mary realize that she was spreading this deadly disease as those around her kept succumbing to it, even though she herself n...
Well that was depressing. Realistic I imagine but depressing. It did not go where i was expecting or hoping. I'm not sure what I got out of this book except a renewed sense that people are retarted and have ab additive personalities?Maybe i was meant to take peice in the thought that no matter how m...
** I won this as a Giveaway on Goodreads**Mary Mallon came to the America looking for a better life. What she got instead was a life-time of being sought after and hidden away from public view.Mary started out her life as a laundress and worked her way up to a cook. A few people got sick, even fewer...
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