Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell is a bestselling American author if literature, fiction, fantasy and science fiction novels. She was born in Elmhurst, Illinois a suburb of Chicago. Her parents served in the military; her mother was a Navy nurse while her mother was a Marine Corps drill instructor. She was raised in a family with staunch Catholic roots but left church aged 15. After graduating from Glenbard East High School, Mary went ahead to earn her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Illinois at and a Master’s in Social Anthropology at Northeastern University Boston and a PhD at the University of Michigan specializing in Biological Anthropology.