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American author of the bestselling My Friend Flicka.Name variations: Mary O'Hara Alsop; Mary Sture-Vasa; Mary O'Hara Alsop Sture-Vasa.

Born Mary Alsop on July 10, 1885, in Cape May Point, New Jersey; died of arteriosclerosis on October 14, 1980, in Chevy Chase, Maryland; daughter of Reese Fell Alsop (an Episcopal cleric) and Mary Lee (Spring) Alsop; educated at Ingleside in New Milford, Connecticut, and at the Packer Institute in Brooklyn; studied music and languages in Europe; married Kent Parrot, in 1905 (divorced); married Helge Sture-Vasa, in 1922 (divorced 1947); children (first marriage): Mary O'Hara; Kent, Jr.

Selected works:

Let Us Say Grace (1930); My Friend Flicka (1941); Thunderhead (1943); Green Grass of Wyoming (1946); The Son of Adam Wyngate (1952, reissued as The Devil Enters by a North Window , 1990); Novel-in-the-Making (1954); Wyoming Summer (1963); The Catch Colt (play, 1964); A Musical in the Making (1966