Marilyn Durham was an American author of fiction.
12 Facts About Marilyn Durham
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Marilyn Durham attended Evansville College for a year.
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Marilyn Durham had a lifelong interest in the history of medieval England, archaeology, theology, and astronomy.
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One evening in 1969, Marilyn Durham told her husband that she could write a novel better than any she had been reading lately.
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Marilyn Durham sold The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing to Harcourt Brace, which published it in 1972.
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Marilyn Durham followed up the success of The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing with another character-driven Western novel, Dutch Uncle, which was published by Harcourt in 1973.
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Marilyn Durham spoke at writing workshops at the University of Evansville, University of Southern Indiana, and numerous fiction writing groups in Evansville.
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Marilyn Durham taught Sunday school at Trinity United Methodist Church in downtown Evansville.
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Marilyn Durham was planning a novel about the Spanish King Philip II and his son, Don Carlos, when she suffered a stroke in January 2012.
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Marilyn Durham's novels have seen multiple reprintings and have been translated into many languages.
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Marilyn Durham died on March 19,2015, aged 84 in her native Evansville.
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Marilyn Durham won the fiction award of the Society of Midland Authors in 1973 for The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing.