Mary Virginia Carey (US writer)
- M. V. Carey
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- Carey, Mary Virginia
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- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Date of birth
- 1925-05-19
- Place of birth
- England
- Date of death
- 1994-05-27
- Place of death
- California
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Mary Virginia Carey (1925–1994) was an English/American writer. She became famous through her involvement in the youth book series The Three Investigators.
Mary Virginia Carey was born in New Brighton, England on May 19, 1925, to John Cornelius (an engineer) and Mary Alice (Hughes) Carey. She came to the United States as a baby and lived in California, becoming a naturalised citizen in 1955.
In 1969, after working with Walt Disney Productions writing novelizations of Disney motion pictures, she began to work free-lance as an author and completed more than ten 'Three Investigators' books for Random House. Her other titles included A Place for Allie (1985) which was based on the life of Carey's mother and her trip from Nova Scotia to Boston.
Carey was a board member of the American Lung Association as well as a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers.
She died in California on May 27, 1994.
Editions
| Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Die drei ???: Die singende Schlange | Paperback | 978-3-570-21754-2 | 2007-12 |
| Die drei ???: Das Bergmonster | Paperback | 978-3-570-22079-5 | 2010-06 |
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- 2022-04-03