Book Giveaway For Saluting the Sun

Saluting the Sun

Release date: Apr 20, 2015

Two women--one who lives in a tree house, the other a local TV celebrity--learn that it's not what happens to us in life that defines us, but how we r ...more
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Who is safer, a 23-year-old woman who plays the glass harmonica on the streets of New Orleans and lives in a c ...more

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Availability: 8 copies available, 486 people requesting

Giveaway dates: Apr 24 - May 15, 2015

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About Mary Hutchings Reed

Ever since turning 40 a few years ago, Mary has been trying to become harder to introduce, and, at 66, she finds she’s been succeeding. Her conventional resume includes thirty nine years of practicing law, first with Sidley & Austin and then with Winston & Strawn, two of the largest firms in Chicago. She was a partner at both in the advertising, trademark, copyright, entertainment
and sports law ar Ever since turning 40 a few years ago, Mary has been trying to become harder to introduce, and, at 66, she finds she’s been succeeding. Her conventional resume includes thirty nine years of practicing law, first with Sidley & Austin and then with Winston & Strawn, two of the largest firms in Chicago. She was a partner at both in the advertising, trademark, copyright, entertainment
and sports law areas, and retired February 1, 2015. She continues to write, do community service and pursue hobbies such as golf, sailing, tennis and bridge. Three of Mary's four novels have been ForewordINDIES Book of the Year Awards Fianalists.

Mary was raised in Crystal Lake, Illinois, then a small town forty five miles from Chicago. Her mother was a librarian and her father a PhD in chemical engineering, and that should explain everything. She has one sister, Donna C. Steele, born eleven months and two weeks after her, who skipped first grade so that the “Hutchings girls” were very much like twins—Donna the creative one (the Founder and Artistic Director of Steel Beam Theatre, St. Charles, IL) and Mary the logical one, and that should explain the rest of it!

She attended Prospect High School in Mt. Prospect, Illinois, where she loved being editor-in-chief of the school newspaper and on the speech events team, but was happy to graduate and move on to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She is “ever true to Brown” and grateful for lifelong friends she met there, as well as the intellectual encouragement she received from an inspirational faculty. She received both her bachelors (in public policymaking, an interdisciplinary program) and her masters (in economics) in four years, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1973. She then entered Yale Law School (having just missed the Clintons), where she won second prize in the Moot Court of Appeals competition–(“My husband doesn’t really believe in women in law,” one of the judge’s wives told her afterwards)–and chaired the Moot Court Board in her last year. She joined Sidley & Austin in 1976 and was elected to partner in 1983. Winston & Strawn recruited her in 1989 to help start their intellectual property department.

Mary married William R. Reed, an internist, in 1982. They just celebrated twenty five wonderful years together. It’s his fault she’s now a writer. In 1992, Mary took a leave of absence from law to sail from Norfolk, Va. to St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. with Bill in a 32 foot boat. (See Mary’s book, Captain Aunt), which took 22 days and nights. After three storms at sea and a few weeks of recovery at anchor in the Caribbean, Mary resigned her partnership in order to reduce her workload and refocus some of her energy on writing. She began to write every day and to study with Enid Powell in Chicago and Fred Shafer in Evanston. She has attended numerous writing conferences around the country, including
Breadloaf (Middlebury, Vermont), Tin House (Portland, Oregon) and Words and Music (New Orleans).

Mary's fiction has been honored as a finalist in the following competitions: William Wisdom/William Faulkner; Illinois Library Associaation's Soon to Be Famous author Project; Foreword Reviews' IndieFab; Eric Hoffer; Writers' Digest Self-Published, Florida Review Editors' Prize, and many others.

Mary and Bill have a new, smaller sailboat, If, still ocean-worthy, which they occasionally cruise up Lake Michigan and which they hope to take to salt water some time soon.

Mary also believes in community service, and for many years has served on the boards of various nonprofit organizations, including American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, Off the Street Club and the Chicago Bar Foundation. She was honored as LAF's 2015 "Champion for Justice" by Chicago's Legal Assistance Foundation. She also sits on the board of her longest-standing service involvement, Lawyers for the Creative Arts. Her past three indie novels all benefit causes that Mary is passionate ...more

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