Mary Lawlor

Creative Nonfiction Writer

Easton, PA
Pennsylvania US

Author's Bio

Mary Lawlor is author of Fighter Pilot's Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War and a novel The Translators (forthcoming), set in 12th-century Iberia. She taught literature at Muhlenberg College and lives half the year in Gaucín, Spain and the other half in Easton, Pennsylvania. 

Publications & Prizes

Book:
Fighter Pilot's Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties & the Cold War (Bloomsbury USA, 2015)

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Don DeLillo, Leslie Silko, Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Walt Whitman, many others
What I'm reading now: 
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, Papyrus by Irene Vallejo

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Irish American
Prefers to work with: 
Seniors, Veterans, Women
Fluent in: 
English, Spanish
Born in: 
Orange, NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: Jun 02, 2026