Mary Francis Shura
Mary Francis Shura Craig, ne Young was an American writer of over 50 novels from 1960 to 1990. She wrote childrens adventures and young adult romances as Mary Francis Shura, M. F. Craig, and Meredith Hill gothic novels as Mary Craig romance novels as Alexis Hill, Mary Shura Craig and Mary S. Craig and suspense novels as M. S. Craig.
Mary Francis Young was born onFebruary 1923 in Pratt, Kansas, the daughter of Jack Fant and Mary Francis Young. She studied at Maryville State College. Her family moved to the Pacific Northwest. OnOctober 1943, she married Daniel Charles Shura, who died in 1959. They had two children Marianne Francis Shura and Daniel Charles Shura. OnDecember 1961, she married Raymond C. Craig. They had a daughter Alice Barrett Craig before their divorce.
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