Mary Dolim
Mary Nuzum Dolim (August 15, 1925 – January 15, 2002) was a Kansas-born American children's writer. She published four books and penned several articles and short stories.[1] Mary Dolim was noted for writing about the Southern United States and for writing about career women in the 1960s.[2][3]
Mary Dolim was married to Abel Dolim (1922–2012), an airplane navigator who later became a builder, with whom she had a son and a daughter.[4] They lived in the San Francisco East Bay Area.
Books[edit]
- Bishop Pattern (New York: Morrow), 1963[5]
- Also published as The Ruling Family (New York: Avon Books), 1963
- Miss Mac (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand), 1963[6][7][8]
- The Omen (New York: Morrow), 196?[2][9][10]
- Four Hands for Mercy (New York: Grosset & Dunlap), 1965, with Gen Kakacek[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. "Dolim, Mary N. (1925-2002)". Boston University. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ a b "The Omen". Library Journal Book Review: 638. 1967.
Mary Dolim knows her Southern country people and writes movingly of them in this story of a summer in the life of the Boggs family of Northern Florida, a summer whose heat was 'so thick it was sliceable.'
- ^ a b "Four Hands for Mercy". The Publishers' Weekly. 188: 110. 1965.
Mary Dolim's special gift for career novels has already been demonstrated in her highly successful story of a student teacher.
- ^ "Abel Dolim". East Bay Times. Legacy.com. 6 November 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ "The Bishop Pattern". Book-of-the-Month Club news: 13. 1963.
As Mary Dolim's tender, funny little novel tells the story, Lisa Bishop arrives in the west Florida turpentine town of Bishop in the 1930s, when she is still a little girl.
- ^ "Miss Mac". Wilson Library Bulletin. 38: 112. 1963. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
'Miss Mac' Is Jennifer Macmillan, a beginning teacher, and this is the warm story of her first year in the classroom, with its accompanying problems
- ^ Tiedt, Iris; Tiedt, Sidney (1967). Unrequired Reading: An Annotated Bibliography for Teachers and School Administrators (PDF) (2 ed.). Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press. p. 78.
Teaching in a large California high school is an enlightening experience for first-year teacher Jennifer Macmillan.
- ^ "Miss Mac". Quill & Quire. 1963.
The story of an attractive student teacher's first year on a high school faculty.
- ^ "The Omen". Bryan Daily Eagle. Newspaperarchive.com. 12 February 1967. p. 22. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ "The Omen by Mary N. Dolim". Kirkus Reviews. 22 February 1966.
This drama is told in an odd but effective mixture of realism and poetry in which eloquent insights and Cracker speech combine in a tender, believable commentary.
External links[edit]
- Mary N. Dolim at Goodreads
- Mary N. Dolim at Open Library
- Dolim, Mary N. (1925-2002) at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center
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