1. Mary Hood regularly publishes essays and reviews in literary and popular magazines.
10 Facts About Mary Hood
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Mary Hood was born in Brunswick, Georgia, on September 16,1946, to William Charles Hood and Mary Adella Katherine Rogers Hood.
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Mary Hood's father was an aircraft worker, originally from Manhattan, New York.
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Mary Hood's mother was a Latin teacher, originally from rural Cherokee County, Georgia.
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At the age of two, Mary Hood and her family moved from coastal Brunswick to White, Georgia, where they briefly lived with her maternal grandfather, Claude Montgomery Rogers, who was a Methodist minister.
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Mary Hood graduated from Worth County High School in Sylvester, Georgia, and then moved to Clayton County just outside Atlanta, where she commuted back and forth to Georgia State University.
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Mary Hood has said of Southerners on how they approach identity:.
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Mary Hood's work has been compared to that of Erskine Caldwell, Carson McCullers and Eudora Welty.
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Mary Hood is working on a novel titled The Other Side of the River.
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Many of Mary Hood's work has been translated into Dutch, French, Japanese and Swedish.