Author, Journalist, Teacher, Mother
Mary Carpenter is a writer living in the Washington DC house where her two sons grew up alongside many small animals: a dog and many cats plus a hedgehog, a chinchilla, guinea pigs, hamsters, and mice.
Mary works as a medical journalist, currently writing the weekly “Well-Being” column for mylittlebird.com. She leads creative writing workshops in the Washington DC area and elsewhere.
Reach out to Mary Carpenter
PRESENTATIONS for her book on Flannery O’Connor
Mary gives readings and presentations to all age groups and can address the following topics:
Why I wanted to write about Flannery for a range of ages
What I hope readers will get from a book about Flannery
My experience writing this book about Flannery
My writing career and the Writing Process
The Boxes (in my book): How I decided what materials to highlight
Books by Mary Carpenter
Lost and Found in the Mississippi Sound:
Eli and the Dolphins of Hurricane Katrina
About a young dolphin who was swept out to sea from his aquarium in a deadly hurricane, spent two weeks in dangerous, debris-filled waters, and finally was saved in a dramatic rescue.
Flannery
O’Connor
A Girl Who Knew Her Own Mind
About one of the most renowned American authors, Flannery O’Connor: the writer’s rural southern upbringing, her relationship to race, her chronic lupus, and her Catholic faith. Through her fiction, she went on to become a role model for unconventional girls everywhere and for anyone who dreams of becoming a writer.
Rescued By A Cow
aND A Squeeze:
Temple Grandin
About a woman diagnosed with autism who became successful as a designer of humane facilities for livestock, especially cows, who became an author and lecturer to help families coping with autism and teach people what it means to be a visual thinker.
