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Valerie Martin is one of America's finest contemporary novelists, best known for her Orange Prize-winning PROPERTY and also the acclaimed MARY REILLY, which was filmed by Stephen Frears. Her most recent novel, her tenth, is THE GHOST OF THE MARY CELESTE.

Valerie Martin is one of America's finest contemporary novelists, best known for her Orange Prize-winning PROPERTY and also the acclaimed MARY REILLY, which was filmed by Stephen Frears. She is the author of three collections of short stories and SALVATION, a biography of St Francis.

Valerie Martin is the author of nine novels, including Trespass, Mary Reilly, Italian Fever, and Property, three collections of short fiction, and a biography of St. Francis of Assisi, titled Salvation

Valerie Martin is the author of nine novels, including Trespass, Mary Reilly, Italian Fever, and Property, three collections of short fiction, and a biography of St. Francis of Assisi, titled Salvation. She has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as the Kafka Prize (for Mary Reilly) and Britain’s Orange Prize (for Property).

In Alexandra, Martin creates a slowly shocking erotic odyssey, a bittersweet love story, a chilling tale of a man destroyed by a desperate and tragic experiment in passion. A strange and artful novel. Margaret Manning, Boston Sunday Globe.

Valerie Martin is the author of ten novels, including Trespass, Mary Reilly, Italian Fever, and Property, three collections of short . Martin’s last novel, The Confessions of Edward Day was a New York Times notable book for 2009

Valerie Martin is the author of ten novels, including Trespass, Mary Reilly, Italian Fever, and Property, three collections of short fiction, and a biography o. .St. Francis of Assisi titled Salvation. Martin’s last novel, The Confessions of Edward Day was a New York Times notable book for 2009. A new novel The Ghost of the Mary Celeste is due from Nan Talese/Random House in January 2014, and a middle-grade reader Anton and Cecil, Cats at Sea co-written with Valerie’s niece Lisa Martin, will be out from Algonquin in October of 2013. Valerie Martin has taught in writing programs at Mt.

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Valerie Martin creates memorable characters: the pompous butle. n unctuous landlor. nd the utterly convincing Mary, with a housemaid’s eye, a servant’s rigorous sense of place-and a sufferer’s hard won dignity.

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Valerie Martin is a great writer. Her voice is dark yet poignant, strange but beautiful-shocking and chilling. Daphne du Maurier sprang to mind as I read this book. Martin's male narrative style reminds me a great deal of Du Maurier. All in all, I cannot recommend this unique novel enough. Though slow at first, it takes you to a ride that is sexy as well as suspenseful.

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Valerie Martin (born 1948, Missouri) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her novel Property (2003) won the Orange Prize for Fiction. In 2012, The Observer named Property as one of "The 10 best historical novels"

Valerie Martin (born 1948, Missouri) is an American novelist and short story writer. In 2012, The Observer named Property as one of "The 10 best historical novels". Although Martin was born in Missouri, she was raised and educated in New Orleans, Louisiana. She graduated from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.