Mary Doria Russell has been called one of the most versatile writers in American literature & one of our greatest contemporary storytellers.

Mary Doria Russell was born in suburban Chicago in 1950. Her mother was a Navy nurse and her father was a Marine Corps drill sergeant. She and her younger brother Richard consequently developed a …

About Mary Doria Russell Mary Doria Russell has been called one of the most versatile writers in American literature and one of our greatest contemporary storytellers. Her novels are studied in …

Best of the Blog Mary is now an Author Emeritus, but she will occasionally publish a new entry if something exciting happens.

A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow features Jesuit priest & linguist Emilio.

Born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Doc Holliday arrives in Texas hoping that the dry air and sunshine will restore him to health.

Mary Doria Russell EDUCATION B.A. 1972, University of Illinois, Urbana Major: Cultural Anthropology Minor: Spanish, Mesoamerican Studies M.A. 1976, Northeastern University, Boston Major: Social …

About Dreamers of the Day A schoolteacher still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic travels to the Middle East in this memorable and passionate novel Agnes …

FAQs Will The Sparrow ever be adapted for film or television? As of July, 2021, The Sparrow remains unfilmed, despite 25+ years of effort by people passionate about getting an adaptation produced. …

Tracing the lives of a handful of fascinating characters—a charismatic Italian Resistance leader, a priest, an Italian rabbi’s family, a disillusioned German doctor—Mary Doria Russell tells the little-known …