M. E. Kerr (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
M. E. Kerr was born Marijane Agnes Meaker in 1927 in the small town of Auburn, New York. Her parents were Ida Meaker, a homemaker, and Ellis Meaker, a mayonnaise manufacturer, and Meaker had both an older and a younger brother.
Although Meaker did not consider her parents to be particularly intellectual, the Meaker home was full of books, and Marijane was an avid reader. She knew from an early age that she wanted to be a writer and began submitting stories to various publications while still in school. Even then, she submitted her work under a variety of...
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