Mary Stewart is a popular British novelist. She is mainly for her writing in a typical manner, a genre of her own between fantasy and historical types. The most popular work of the author is a series called Merlin in which again the author combines both the genres of history and fantasy.
Mary Stewart was born on 17th September in the year of 1916 in Sunderland in the Durham County in United Kingdom. She was a student of the Durham University. The author used to be a professor of English Language and literature. When she got married to Sir Frederick Stewart, former chairman of Geology Department of Edinburgh University, she put a full stop in her career as a professor to carry on a happy family life. She became a teacher in the school of John Norquay elementary for 30 to 35 years later in her life.
The Merlin Series for which Mary Stewart has remained the most popular, started its journey with The Crystal Cave in 1970. In 1973 there came The Hollow Hills. The Last Enchantment was published in 1979 while The Wicked Day in 1983. The last part of the series was published in 1995, which was named as The Prince and the Pilgrim.
Mary Stewart has her credit to be regarded as the founder of the subcategory of the suspense called romantic suspense. In her novels one can find a beautiful and fine blend of love and romance and mystery together. It is a common theme of her novels where two people meet and fall in love with each other in a mysterious plot. The sense of mystery rules through out the novel. The novel of the author is a complete process of solving mystery and the revealing of heros personality that ends with the heroine falling for the hero.
Mary Stewart also wrote crime fiction, gothic fiction along with romance novels. Many of her works have been taken for screen adoption. Mainly her books are written in the Scottish background while there are some others for which she had chosen picturesque locations like Damascus, the Greek islands, Spain, France and Austria and other countries. The peak time of her writing career was the era of 60s and 70s. during the period, many of her creations were translated in several other languages and the suspense and romantic novels were highly regarded in all the languages.
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