Author

Books by Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell is an American novelist who trained as a biological anthropologist before turning to fiction. The Sparrow (1996) was her debut novel and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the BSFA Award, and the James Tiptree Jr. Award. She followed it with Children of God (1998), a direct sequel. Her subsequent novels include Thread of Grace, Dreamers of the Day, and Doc, a historical novel about Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Her anthropological background shapes the careful social construction of alien cultures in her fiction.