Mary Monroe

Mary Monroe is an American author of African-American fiction novels. She is the author of the God Don’t Like Ugly series and the Mama Ruby series. Mary grew up the daughter of sharecroppers in Alabama and was the only member of her family to graduate from high school. Instead of attending college or taking formal writing classes, she taught herself the writing craft by writing short stories ever since she was four years old. She considers her favourite authors to be Ernest Gaines, Stephen King, Alice Walker and James Patterson. Mary lives in Oakland, California. Mary Monroe became a published author in 1985 with the novel The Upper Room. However, it would be another 15 years and hundreds of rejection letters before she would get a contract for another novel, which was God Don’t Like Ugly, published in 2000. Below is a list of Mary Monroe’s books in order of when they were first released: Get notified when Mary Monroe releases a new book at BookNotification.com.