Biography,+Mary+Hood

Mary Hood **__Biography:__** Mary Hood was born September 16th in Brunswick, Georgia in the year 1946.

Hood’s father was originally from Manhattan and he worked on aircraft during and after the Second World War. Her mother taught Latin.

For a short time, Hood lived with her grandfather, Claude Montgomery Rogers, who preached at a Methodist church. Throughout Hood’s young life, her family moved all around the state of Georgia, until Hood finally graduated from Worth County High School in Sylvester, Georgia and moved to Clayton County (just outside of Atlanta,) and attended Georgia State University.

She acquired her degree—Spanish—and worked as a librarian before moving to Woodstock, Georgia. She lived there for thirty years, where she worked on her writing. She now lives in Jackson County, Georgia, where she spends her day with her family and her literary work.

Hood is an award-winning fiction writer who chiefly works within the subgenre of Southern Literature. Hood has two different short story collections: //How Far She Went// and //And Venus is Blue//, as well as her novel, //Familiar Heat//.

__**Bibliography:**__
 * Novels**
 * //Familiar Heat// (Knopf, 1995)
 * //The Other Side of the River// (in progress)
 * Novella**
 * //And Venus is Blue// (Ticknor & Fields, 1986) - title story from the short story collection is the novella
 * Short Story Collections**
 * //How Far She Went// (University of Georgia Press, 1984)
 * //And Venus is Blue// (Ticknor & Fields, 1986)