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Mary Hood (born September 16, 1946 in Brunswick, Georgia) is an award-winning fiction writer of predominantly Southern literature, who has authored three short story collections - ''How Far She Went,'' ''And Venus is Blue'' and ''A Clear View of the Southern Sky'' - two novellas - ''And Venus is Blue'' (also the title of her second short story collection) and ''Seam Busters'' - and a novel, ''Familiar Heat''. She also regularly publishes essays and reviews in literary and popular magazines. Hood was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2014.〔Georgia Writers Hall of Fame (University of Georgia): (Hall of Fame Honorees: Mary Hood )〕 ==Family and home== Mary Hood was born in Brunswick, Georgia, on September 16, 1946, to William Charles Hood and Mary Adella Katherine Rogers Hood. Hood’s father was an aircraft worker, originally from Manhattan, New York. Her mother was a Latin teacher, originally from rural Cherokee County, Georgia. The two met during World War II at a United Service Organizations event in Brunswick. At the age of two, 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. Shortly thereafter, the family moved to Douglas County, and, subsequently, multiple other places across rural north and south Georgia. Hood graduated from Worth County High School in Sylvester, Georgia, and then moved to Clayton County just outside of Atlanta, where she commuted back and forth to Georgia State University. After obtaining a degree in Spanish and working for two years as a librarian in Douglasville, Georgia, Hood bought land and moved to Cherokee County near Woodstock, Georgia. Hood lived in Woodstock (in the small lake community of Little Victoria on the banks of Lake Allatoona) for 30 years, where she witnessed the small, rural town turn into a bedroom community for burgeoning Atlanta – much of which is fictionally chronicled in her short story collection ''And Venus is Blue''.〔''Southern Writers at Century's End'' by Jeffrey Jay Folks, James A. Perkins, 1997, University Press of Kentucky〕 In the early 2000s, she left the now metro-Atlanta-Woodstock area for the quiet countryside of Jackson County, Georgia, where she currently resides. 〔North Georgia Oral History Series: Interview with Mary Hood by Dede Yow, Thomas A. Scott and Sallie Ellison Loy (Kennesaw State University Oral History Project 1999)〕〔The New Georgia Encyclopedia: Mary Hood: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1000〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Hood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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