Author mary ohara biography

American author of the bestselling My Friend Flicka.Name variations: Mary O'Hara Alsop; Mary Sture-Vasa; Mary O'Hara Alsop Sture-Vasa.

Born Mary Alsop on July 10, , in Cape May Point, New Jersey; died of arteriosclerosis on October 14, , in Chevy Chase, Maryland; daughter of Reese Fell Alsop (an Episcopal cleric) and Mary Lee (Spring) Alsop; educated at Ingleside in New Milford, Connecticut, and at the Packer Institute in Brooklyn; studied music and languages in Europe; married Kent Parrot, in (divorced); married Helge Sture-Vasa, in (divorced ); children (first marriage): Mary O'Hara; Kent, Jr.

Selected works:

Let Us Say Grace (); My Friend Flicka (); Thunderhead (); Green Grass of Wyoming (); The Son of Adam Wyngate (, reissued as The Devil Enters by a North Window , ); Novel-in-the-Making (); Wyoming Summer (); The Catch Colt (play, ); A Musical in the Making (); The Catch Colt (novella, ); Flicka's Friend: The Autobiography of M