| Intro | American writer |
| A.K.A. | Mary Alice Kruesi |
| Is |
Writer Novelist |
| From | United States of America |
| Type | Literature |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 25 May 1960 |
| Age: | 60 years |
Mary Alice Monroe, also published as Mary Alice Kruesi, is a New York Times best-selling fiction writer. Many of her novels deal with environmental issues; For example, The Beach House and Swimming Lessons refer to the plight of injured sea turtles.
Monroe currently resides in South Carolina, and so many of her novels are set in the South and feature “strong Southern women”.
Her novel, Time is a River, is about breast cancer survivors in a fly-fishing group in North Carolina, and Last Light Over Carolina describes the life and times of the shrimping industry. Monroe received the 2008 Award for Writing from the South Carolina Center for the Book.
Mary Alice’s newest novel, The Summer Girls is about the relationships between three half sisters scattered across the country and a grandmother determined to help them all reconnect.
Novels and children’s books
This is a full list of novels from the author’s website.
- Last Light Over Carolina
- Time is a River
- Swimming Lessons
- Sweetgrass
- Skyward
- The Beach House
- The Four Seasons
- The Book Club
- Girl in the Mirror
- The Long Road Home
- The Butterfly’s Daughter
- Beach House Memories
- The Summer Girls (2013)
- The Summer Wind (2014)
Children’s Books produced by Sylvan Dell Publishing
- Turtle Summer is a children’s companion book to her novel Swimming Lessons.
- A Butterfly Called Hope
- “Mary Alice Monroe Books page”. Retrieved 2008-07-04.
- http://sylvandellpublishing.com/authors.htm#Monroe