Mary Hood
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I. Biography Mary Hood is a native of Georgia. She received her education from many different schools throughout the United States. She
graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Boston University, and also Cornell University. After she graduated, she began to teach at the college. That fall she
taught Book Arts to a senior class of about 55 students. In addition, she taught a writing course at the college. Her classes were so popular that the students wanted her to continue
teaching longer than the six weeks the classes were originally scheduled. Mary Hood is a award winning artist who has many talents as a person as well as an artist.
She is the author of two short stories one being And Venus Is Blue, which won her the Townsend Award. Her other is named How Far She Went, which won her the Flannery O' Connor Award.
In 1996, her first novel was published. In 1994, she received the Whiting Award. She has spent many years teaching colleges. At the University of Georgia, she taught and she was
the John and Renee Grisham Southern-writer-In-Resident at the University of Mississippi in 1996. Mary Hood has spent many hours trying to help people to see a way of doing
what they want for themselves and not for anyone else. She tells parents to believe in their kids and help them to understand they make a difference in the world. She has had many
successes in her life, but her best one is helping people to see their real self. Mary hopes to inspire many lives before she leaves the world. She hopes that people will get over
trying to impress other people and worry about their own life. Hood believes in honesty and thinks that you shouldn't beat things into children's heads. She believes that they learn better when they are motivated.
One way of motivation is music. Hood once taught piano lessons in her days before marriage. In her days before kids, she and her husband played in a band. They preformed
Bluegrass. So when her children came, they included music in their lives. Her five children are very lively and are very educated in music. Her son is a great guitar player, Ginny does
musical theater, Dan plays bass in a band and Laura plays piano for him. Her youngest son hasn't found his favorite kind of music.
Hood was born in Georgia and raised in Carolina. She attended school in many places and is also well educated in arts. She hopes that people can enjoy her works. Many people
don't realize that it is people like her that help out our world. Kids around the world enjoyed her teaching and hopes that she will keep on educating the world. II. Hood on the Web
This essay was submitted by a student of Debbie Wooten, a teacher at Bacon County High School in Alma, Georgia.