Alabama Authors Directory

The Alabama Authors Directory is a resource for readers, editors, publishers, educators, librarians, program planners, and the simply curious to discover and learn more about writers with connections to the state.

Authors directly submit their entries via this form, including publications, availability for programs and workshops, and contact information. Easily searchable and updated, the directory will grow and become more valuable with each entry.

Alabama authors are writing in every genre, for every age and interest, and in just about every corner of the world. From the new and emerging to the underknown to the best known, the Alabama Authors Directory is a resource to discover writers and works that reflect our rich, lively literary culture.

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Mary Monroe

Hometown: Toxey, Alabama Lives in: Oakland, CA

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  • Email: Marymonroe4401@aol.com

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About Mary Monroe

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Inspirational

Available for: Remote

Bio: Mary Monroe, the daughter of sharecroppers, is a New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty books. Her work has appeared in Publishers Weekly, Writer’s Digest, and Woman’s World. She is currently working on the fifth book in her Lexington, Alabama series. At the age of four, she would make up stories to entertain her playmates and “co-workers” in the cotton fields of Toxey, Alabama. She is the first and only member of her immediate family to finish high school. She never attended …Read More college or took any writing courses but managed to teach herself to write quality fiction. She loves to travel and is an avid reader. Her favorite authors are Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, Stephen King, James Patterson, and Ernest Gaines.

Works: (All Published by Kensington Books) The Lexington, Alabama Series: Mrs. Wiggins (2021), Empty Vows (2022) Love, Honor, Betray (2023), Double Lives (2024); Once in a Lifetime (2021), The Gift of Family (2020), Across The Way (2020), Right Beside You …Read More (2019), Over The Fence (2019); One House Over (2018), Remembrance (2018); The Devil You Know (2017), Never Trust A Stranger( (2017), Every Woman’s Dream (2016), Bad Blood (2015), Family of Lies (2014), Lost Daughters (2013), God Don’t Make No Mistakes (2012), Mama Ruby (2011), God Ain’t Through Yet (2010), God Ain’t Blind (2009), The Company We Keep (2009), She Had It Coming (2008), Deliver Me from Evil (2007), Borrow Trouble (2006), God Don’t Play (2006), In Sheep’s Clothing (2005), Red Light Wives (2004), God STILL Don’t Like Ugly (2003), Gonna Lay Down My Burdens (2002), The Upper Room (2001), God Don’t Like Ugly (2000)

Awards:

The Southern Literary Voice Award, The Maya Angelou Lifetime Achievement Award, the J. California Cooper Memorial Award, The Black Authors and Readers Rock Award and The Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award

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