Authors on the Web
The Scotsman, April 26, 2013
...Manhattan maternity hospital. She was returned to quarantine, where she spent the remaining 23 years of her life. Mary Beth Keane came across Mallon’s story in 2006, while writing her first novel, The Walking People. She began writing her new novel,...
Irish Central, April 22, 2013
...With her 2010 literary debut, The Walking People, Mary Beth Keane, the daughter of Irish immigrants, established herself as a writer who is especially sensitive to the experience of starting a new life in a new country. In her...
Huffington Post, April 17, 2013
...a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the resilience of Anne Morrow Lindbergh during her and her husband's strange history. Mary Beth Keane's rendering of Typhoid Mary in Fever reveals the immigrant woman who set off the New York's typhoid epidemic. And my own...
The Scotsman, April 14, 2013
...later in a hospital. Various people for whom she cooked suffered bouts of typhoid fever. Several died. Fever Mary Beth Keane Simon & Schuster, £12.99 A man named George Soper, a sort of medical detective, tracked the source of the infection to...
New York Times, April 4, 2013
...director of the Bureau of Preventable Diseases, New York City Department of Health, I enjoyed Patrick McGraths by Mary Beth Keane (March 24). The novel is one of the more recent fictionalized accounts of the infamous typhoid carrier, Mary Mallon, a k a...
Vogue.com, April 2, 2013
...of the trail of death that followed her. A fascinating turn of the last century-set medical cat-and-mouse story, Mary Beth Keane’s Fever (Scribner) summons sympathy for the contrary personality at its center, a self-made immigrant grappling with work...
Marin Independent Journal, March 31, 2013
..."The Death of Bees" by Lisa O'Donnell 6. "The Burgess Boys" by Elizabeth Strout 7. "Fever" by Mary Beth Keane 8. "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" by Maria Semple 9. "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers 10. "The Twelve Tribes of Hattie" by Ayana Mathis ...
News Gazette, May 12, 2013
...Zelda Fitzgerald" and "The Aviator's Wife" hitting bestseller lists. My two recent favorites, however, are "Fever" by Mary Beth Keane and Marisa Silver's "Mary Coin." Mary Mallon, known to most of us as Typhoid Mary, is the fascinating subject of...
Irish Independent, April 28, 2013
...woman, working class, difficult, even that she was Irish, are among the reasons popularly advanced for her treatment. Mary Beth Keane has woven a skilful and largely sympathetic novel around the bare facts of Mary's life, without pulling any punches...
Daily Beast, April 26, 2013
...island located in New York’s East River, for a total of 26 years. ‘Fever: A Novel’ by Mary Beth Keane. 320 pp. Scribner. $26. Suddenly, with just a few feet of dirt separating me from her remains, it occurred to me that she might have been nothing...
The Scotsman, April 26, 2013
...Manhattan maternity hospital. She was returned to quarantine, where she spent the remaining 23 years of her life. Mary Beth Keane came across Mallon’s story in 2006, while writing her first novel, The Walking People. She began writing her new novel,...
NewsRT.co.uk, April 26, 2013
...YOU might not recognise the name Mary Mallon, but odds are that "Typhoid Mary" rings bells. She was also labelled “the most dangerous woman in America”, after some wealthy New Yorkers for whom she cooked contracted typhoid fever. Though she didn’t...
Irish Central, April 22, 2013
...With her 2010 literary debut, The Walking People, Mary Beth Keane, the daughter of Irish immigrants, established herself as a writer who is especially sensitive to the experience of starting a new life in a new country. In her...
Huffington Post, April 17, 2013
...a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the resilience of Anne Morrow Lindbergh during her and her husband's strange history. Mary Beth Keane's rendering of Typhoid Mary in Fever reveals the immigrant woman who set off the New York's typhoid epidemic. And my own...
