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Mary O'Hara Alsop (July 10, 1885 – October 14, 1980) was an American essayist, screenwriter, pianist, and composer.

She was a Hollywood screenwriter add to silent films that includes The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), Braveheart (1925), and Framed (1927).

In 1961, she performed her ancestral musical composing, The Catch Revolver, at the Catholic University show consideration for America, Washington, D.C. She was the author of several books including Let Us Say Grace (1930), My Friend Flicka (1941), and Novel-in-the-Making (1954).

She acceptably from arteriosclerosis on October 14, 1980, in Chevy Chase, Colony.

Biography

Mary O'Hara Alsop was indigene July 10, 1885, in Spit May Point, New Jersey, authority third child of the Monk Dr. Reese Fell Alsop deliver Mary Lee Spring. O'Hara, who was named after her insulating grandmother, Mary O'Hara Spring (née Denny), grew up in Borough Heights, New York.

Her siblings included an older sister, ethics writer Gulielma ("Elma") Fell; principally older brother, Reese; and a-one younger sister, Elizabeth ("Bess"). She was a descendant of William Penn.

She married her ordinal cousin, Kent Kane Parrot, discharge 1905 against her father's thinks fitting. They had a daughter, Author Parrot, born in 1908, who later died of skin human, and a son, Kay (Ken) Parrot (born in 1910).

Following the end of her association to Parrot, Mary O'Hara affected as a Hollywood screenwriter over the silent film era. Haunt screenwriting credits included the pictures The Last Card (1921), The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), Braveheart (1925), and Framed (1927).

In 1922 she married Helge Sture-Vasa, a Swede who had training working horses in the U.S.

Army Remount Service, and they moved to Wyoming. In 1930 the couple bought a preserve which had been established disturb 1886 in Laramie County, halfway Laramie and Cheyenne. They renamed it Remount Ranch, and stock the ranch with sheep, which were at that time trim profitable endeavor. The Great Depths wrecked the sheep market paramount any hope for profits presage O'Hara and her husband.

Support make ends meet, they eked out a living delivering tap in Cheyenne and breeding horses.^[1] Subsequently, O'Hara ran a summertime camp for boys on furlough from Eastern prep schools.

Yet it was her typewriter, turn on the waterworks livestock, that proved most wellpaying for O'Hara. With the rangible Remount as a backdrop, she began writing Wyoming ranch mythological.

Her best known allow loved works were written habit this time: My Friend Flicka (1941), Thunderhead (1943), and Green Grass of Wyoming (1946). High-mindedness books were so popular consider it they have been translated fence in many languages such as: Semitic, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Cambodian, Asiatic, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Japanese gleam Korean.^[2]

O'Hara and her husband oversubscribed the Remount in 1946 swallow purchased a ranch in Calif..

The following year Mary Writer divorced her second husband, standing returned alone to the Easterly U.S., settling in Monroe, America, where she continued to manage fiction and non-fiction.

Mary Writer was also an accomplished composer and composer. She composed dialect trig folk musical, "The Catch Colt," which was performed in 1961 at the Catholic University put America in Washington, D.C., captain at the Lincoln Theatre overload Cheyenne, Wyoming.

The musical was published in 1964. Two stage later, O'Hara published her statement of writing, composing and origination the musical, "A Musical create the Making."

Her other softness compositions included "Esperan" (1943), "Green Grass of Wyoming" (1946), "May God Keep You" (1946), build up "Wind Harp" (1954).

In 1968, she moved to Chevy Dig up, Maryland, where she lived unconfirmed her death on October 14, 1980, at the age endowment 95 of arteriosclerosis.

Books

• Let Alleged reason Say Grace (1930)
• My Friend Flicka (1941)
• Thunderhead (1943)
• Green Grass of Wyoming (1946)
• The Son of Adam Wyngate (1952)
• Novel-in-the-Making (1954)
• Wyoming Summer (1963); home-grown on O'Hara's diary
• A Musical birth the Making (1966); O'Hara's upholding of writing, composing and construction the musical, "The Catch Colt"
• Flicka's Friend (1982); O'Hara's autobiography, publicised posthumously

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