![]() ![]() In 1990, she was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. ![]() Her children's novel "The Search for Grissi" received the Carl Sandburg Literary Arts Award in 1985, and she also was nominated to the Young Hoosier Book Award. Craig, and Meredith Hill gothic novels as Mary Craig romance novels as Alexis Hill, Mary Shura Craig and Mary S. ![]() Since 1960, she wrote over 50 books of various genres: children's adventures and teen-romances as Mary Francis Shura, M. Craig, they had a daughter Alice Barrett Craig (Stout), before their divorce. On 8 December 1961, she married Raymond C. They had two children: Marianne Francis Shura (Spraguc) and Daniel Charles Shura. On 24 October 1943, she married Daniel Charles Shura, who died in 1959. When she was very young, her family moved to the Pacific Northwest, where she raised. Mary Francis Young was born on 23 February 1923 in Pratt, Kansas, the daughter of Jack Fant and Mary Francis (Milstead) Young. ![]()
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