Southern historical novelist, Mary Glickman, has had a Life. After 35 years of writing unpublished novels, her persistence was rewarded when she was discovered by Jane Friedman and her newly established company, Open Road Integrated Media, in 2010. She debuted with a Civil Rights Era novel, Home in the Morning. Next was National Jewish Book Awards Fiction Finalist One More River and then, Marching to Zion. Pat Conroy favorite An Undisturbed Peace, listed by Southern Living as a best novel of 2016, followed. Her only contemporary novel, By the Rivers of Babylon, was published in 2023 and her sixth novel, Ain't No Grave, launches in July 0f 2024. Her fictions have been enjoyed by national audiences and are on the Recommended for Great Group Reads of the Women’s National Book Association for whom she has presented her work on numerous occasions.
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Her blogs have appeared in the Huffington Post, Medium.com, and the Jewish Book Council’s Prosen People. She has appeared on both television and radio promoting her work. Her print interviews have been featured in Charleston, SC’s Post and Courier, Charleston City Paper, and Southern Jewish Life among other outlets. Her novels have twice been One Book, One Jewish Community selections, in Chicago and Charlotte respectively.
She lives on Seabrook Island, just outside of Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband.
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