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

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Average rating: 4.12 · 11,750 ratings · 783 reviews · 25 distinct works · Similar authors

	God Don't Like Ugly (God Don't Like Ugly, #1) 4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 3,125 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God Still Don't Like Ugly (God Don't Like Ugly, #2) 4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 2,307 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God Don't Play (God Don't Like Ugly, #3) 4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 1,023 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Upper Room 4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 932 ratings — published 1986 — 15 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gonna Lay Down My Burdens 4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 560 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Light Wives 3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 556 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God Ain't Blind (God Don't Like Ugly, #4) 4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 566 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mama Ruby 4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 499 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Sheep's Clothing 4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 479 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	She Had It Coming 3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 346 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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God Don't Like Ugly (6 books)
by Mary Monroe
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“ignorance is like a cow that a lot of people can't stop milkin!”
― Mary Monroe, God Don't Play

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