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Mary Lavin was born of Irish parents in East Walpole, Massachusetts, in 1912. She moved to Ireland at the age of ten, living first in Athenry, County Galway, and later in Dublin. She graduated with a degree in literature from the University College Dublin. She published stories in such periodicals as the London Good Housekeeping, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Bazaar, and The New Yorker, to which she contributed regularly. Her short story collections included Tales from Bective Bridge (1942; winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), The Long Ago (1944), A Single Lady (1956), The Great Wave (1961), In the Middle of the Fields (1967), Happiness (1969), A Memory and Other Stories (1972), and The Shrine and Other Stories (1976). She also wrote several novels: The House in Clewe Street (1945), The Becker Wives (1946), Mary O'Grady (1950), and A Likely Story (1957). Mary Lavin was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1959 and 1961 and received the Katherine Mansfield Prize in 1961. In 1968 she was granted an honorary doctorate at University College Dublin. From 1972 to 1974 she served as President of the Irish Academy of Letters, and in 1992 she was elected "Saoi" by Asodana, an affiliation of Irish artists, for outstanding achievement in literature. Mary Lavin lived in Dublin until her death in 1996.
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