Mary Ann Shaffer
Mary Ann Shaffer , full name Mary Ann Fiery Shaffer (born December 13, 1934 in Martinsburg , West Virginia , † February 16, 2008 in San Anselmo , California , USA ) was an American bookseller and writer .
Life
Shaffer worked in bookstores, libraries, and publishing before realizing her dream of writing a book someone loved enough to want to publish . This is how the epistolary novel The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society came into being with the help of her niece, the writer Annie Barrows , and encouragement from the family and the literary society. The book was published by Random House publisher shortly after her death and enjoyed immediate international success. In 2018, a film adaptation of Deine Juliet was released in cinemas.
publication
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society , Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2008 ISBN 978-0-7475-9880-0
- German: Your Juliet - Club of the Guernsey friends of poetry and potato peel bake , Kindler, Reinbek near Hamburg 2008 ISBN 978-3-463-40524-7
- as audio book: Read by Luise Helm , Uve Teschner , Johannes Steck u. a., Argon Verlag, Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-8398-1095-8 , 449 min, 6 CD
Award
- 2008: Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post
Web links
- Authors' Bio. In: AnnieBarrows.com. Archived from the original on June 27, 2014 .
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Shaffer, Mary Ann |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shaffer, Mary Ann Fiery (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1934 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Martinsburg , West Virginia , USA |
DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 2008 |
Place of death | San Anselmo , California , USA |