Mary Monroe





Mary Monroe

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I am the third child of Alabama sharecroppers and the first and only member of my family to finish high school. I never attended college or any writing classes. I taught myself how to write and started writing short stories around age four. I spent the first part of my life in Alabama and Ohio and moved to Richmond, California in 1973. I have lived in Oakland since 1984.

My first novel THE UPPER ROOM was published by St. Martin's Press in 1985 and was widely reviewed throughout the U.S. and in Great Britain. An excerpt is included in Terry McMillan's anthology BREAKING ICE. I endured fifteen years and hundreds of more rejection letters before I landed a contract for my second novel, GOD DON'T LIKE UGLY. It was published in October 2000 by Ke...more


Average rating: 4.06 · 6,211 ratings · 518 reviews · 29 distinct works
God Don't Like Ugly (God Do...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 1,827 ratings10 editions
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God Still Don't Like Ugly (...
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 1,184 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions
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God Don't Play
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 517 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions
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The Upper Room
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Gonna Lay Down My Burdens
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 327 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
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Red Light Wives
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 325 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions
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In Sheep's Clothing
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions
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God Ain't Blind (God Don't ...
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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Mama Ruby
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions
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She Had It Coming
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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More books by Mary Monroe…
God Don't Like Ugly God Still Don't Like Ugly God Ain't Blind God Ain't Through Yet
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Mary Monroe, God Don't Play

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