147 ratings | 3 reviews | avg rating:4.39

Mary Dana Marks’s Followers (3)

Mary’s Bookshelves

to-read (14)
currently-reading (3)
read (150)
did-not-finish (0)
memoir (0)
peace-corps (0)

Mary’s Friends (14)

Lisa Mitten

29 books | 42 friends

Grace Kennan

1 book | 33 friends

Joann Arndorfer meyer

92 books | 26 friends

Jackie

23 books | 62 friends

Genna Wangsness

52 books | 28 friends

Alexander Patico

2 books | 96 friends

Burgess Needle

84 books | 458 friends

Doug Meyer

0 books | 44 friends

More friends…

Mary Dana Marks

Goodreads Author

Born

Huntington, WVA, The United States

Genre

Memoir, Iran, Peace Corps

Member Since

April 2017

edit data

Straight out of the University of Illinois, I joined the Peace Corps, which sent me to Iran, a place more different than I could have imagined. My years there, during the height of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s reign, impacted the way I view the world. Decades later, Iran dominates the news, but its portrayal by the mass media doesn’t reflect the heart and beauty of the place I experienced. I hope in some small way my memoir will deepen the discussion about this important, misrepresented country.
A professional librarian, I spent much of my career as library director for the Museum of the American Indian in New York, my writing directed toward grant proposals and journal articles. During this time I edited the award-winning Native America in ...more