Mary Beckett
Mary Beckett was born in Belfast in 1926.
She began writing in her twenties, first for the BBC, and then for literary magazines.
Her stories are collected as A Belfast Woman (Dublin, Poolbeg, 1980/New York, William Morrow, Beechtree Books, 1998); and A Literary Woman (London, Bloomsbury, 1990).
Her novel is Give Them Stones (Bloomsbury, 1987/New York, Beechtree Books, 1987).
She has also written children's books, including Orla was Six (Poolbeg Press, 1989, illustrated by Carol Betera); Orla at School (Poolbeg Press, 1991, illustrated by Carol Betera); A Family Tree (Poolbeg Press, 1992, illustrated by Ann Kennedy); and Hannah, or the Pink Balloons (Cork, Marino Books, 1995).
She was awarded The Sunday Tribute Arts Award for Literature in 1987.
She lives in Dublin.
