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Mary Noailles Murfree

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Novelist
Died
Jul 31, 1922
Zodiac
Aquarius
Born in
Tennessee
About
A turn-of-the-century American fiction writer, she is considered the first significant female author of Appalachian literature. Her novels include Down the Ravine and The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains; she also wrote numerous works of short fiction.
Family
Her father was a successful Nashville lawyer. The Tennessee town of Murfreesboro was named after her grandfather, who was a colonel in the Revolutionary War.

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