Mary Clyde

Mary Clyde
Born	(1953-02-19) February 19, 1953 (age 72) Provo, Utah, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Education	Brigham Young University University of Utah (MA) Vermont College (MFA)
Genre	Short story
Notable awards	Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (1999)
Children	5

Mary Clyde (born February 19, 1953, in Provo, Utah) is an American short story writer, author of Survival Rates (W.W. Norton, 2001), which won the 1999 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction ^[1] from the University of Georgia Press. Clyde was praised for her work by The New York Times: "Clyde's writing has many strengths, but the greatest one is her ability to transform a shallow experience into something resembling hope. That she does so with intelligence and wit makes this collection as good as they get." ^[2] She graduated from Brigham Young University, University of Utah, with an MA in 1977 and Vermont College with an MFA in 1997. ^[3] She is the mother of five children: Emily Clyde Curtis, Sarah, Rachel Jones, David, and Thomas.

Published works

Short Story Collections

• Survival Rates. W. W. Norton & Company. 2001. ISBN   978-0-393-32084-8.

Anthology Publications

• Shannon Ravenel; Tony Earley, eds. (1999). "Krista had a Treble Clef Rose". New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 1999 . Algonquin Books. p.  148. ISBN   9781565122475. mary clyde.
• Angela Hallstrom, ed. (2010). "Jumping". Dispensation: Latter-Day Fiction. Zarahemla Books. ISBN   9780984360307.

References

1. W.W. Norton > Author Page > Mary Clyde ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
2. Karen Karbo (March 28, 1999). "It's No Fun Being Normal". The New York Times.
3. Guest (2024-10-09). "The Question of Sad, by Mary Clyde". Dawning of a Brighter Day. Retrieved 2025-06-28.

Sources

• Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009