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Mary Francis Shura

Mary Francis Shura

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Mary Francis Young was born on 23 February 1923 in Pratt, Kansas, the daughter of Jack Fant and Mary Francis (Milstead) Young. When she was very young, her family moved to the Pacific Northwest, where she raised. She studied at Maryville State College. On 24 October 1943, she married Daniel Charles Shura, who died in 1959. They had two children: Marianne Francis Shura (Spraguc) and Daniel Charles Shura. On 8 December 1961, she married Raymond C. Craig, they had a daughter Alice Barrett Craig (Stout), before their divorce. Since 1960, she wrote over 50 books of various genres: children's adventures and teen-romances as Mary Francis Shura, M. F. Craig, and Meredith Hill; gothic novels as Mary Craig; romance novels as Alexis Hill, Mary Shura Craig and Mary S. Craig; and suspense novels as M. S. Craig. Her children's novel "The Search for Grissi" received the Carl Sandburg Literary Arts Award in 1985, and she also was nominated to the Young Hoosier Book Award. In 1990, she was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. She lived in Hinsdale, Illinois, where her apartment apartment burned on 13 December 1990. At 67, she died of injuries suffered in the fire on 12 January 1991 in Loyola University Medical Burn Center in Maywood.

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Gentle Annie
Representative edition published 1999
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Summer dreams, winter love
Representative edition published 1993
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Our teacher is missing
Representative edition published 1992
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Some Kind of Friend
Representative edition published 1992
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Winter Dreams, Christmas Love
Representative edition published 1992
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Shoefull of Shamrock
Representative edition published 1991
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Kate's House
Representative edition published 1990
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Polly panic
Representative edition published 1990
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The search for Grissi
Representative edition published 1990
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Darcy
Representative edition published 1989
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Kate's Book
Representative edition published 1989
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The mystery at Wolf River
Representative edition published 1989
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Diana
Representative edition published 1988
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The Josie Gambit
Representative edition published 1988
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The Sunday doll
Representative edition published 1988
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Gabrielle
Representative edition published 1987
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Gabrielle Sunfire
Representative edition published 1987
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Don't call me Toad!
Representative edition published 1987
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Flash point
Representative edition published 1987
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The third blonde
Representative edition published 1987
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The Mystery at Peacock Place
Representative edition published 1987
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Mister Wolf and Me
Representative edition published 1986
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Forbidden Love
Representative edition published 1986
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A Loss of Innocence
Representative edition published 1986
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