Mary Lawlor
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Mary Lawlor

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During her childhood, Mary Lawlor’s family moved every two or three years to different parts of the US and Europe. Later she studied at the American College in Paris and the University of Maryland. After earning an MA and PhD in English and American literature at New York University, she became Professor of English and American Studies at Muhlenberg College. She has published three books: Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Closing of the American West (Rutgers University Press 2000), Public Native America: Tribal Self Representations in Casinos, Museums, and Powwows (Rutgers University Press, 2006) and Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War (Rowman and Littlefield 2013, paperback 2015). She is currently working on a novel, The Translators, set in 12th-century Spain, about the discovery and translation of Arab knowledge on the Iberian Peninsula. She is married to writer and professor John McClure. They spend half the year in Easton, Pennsylvania and the other half at their mountain home in Gaucin, Spain.
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