Background
CRAIG, Mary was born on July 2, 1928 in Saint Helens, Lancashire. Daughter of William Joseph Clarkson and Anne Mary Clarkson.
born 2 July 1928 Lancashire Saint Helens
CRAIG, Mary was born on July 2, 1928 in Saint Helens, Lancashire. Daughter of William Joseph Clarkson and Anne Mary Clarkson.
Notre Dame Convent, Saint Helens, Liverpool University, Saint Anne"s College, Oxford University.
She lives in Hampshire, England. A prolific author, she has written 14 books since 1978, including a trilogy on Tibet, biographies of personalities, including John Paul II, Lech Walesa and Frank Pakenham. She is the author of Kundun, the first biography of the 14th Dalai Lama to contextualize his story with that of his family members.
To write her book about the Chinese occupation of Tibet (Tears of Blood (1992)), she visited several times Dharamsala, home of the 14th Dalai Lama and of the Central Tibetan Administration, where she forges bonds of lasting friendships.
In 1993, she made numerous visits to Dharamsala to interview members of the family of the Dalai Lama to write Kundun, regretting she could not meet the mother of the Dalai Lama, Dekyi Tsering (Amala), disappeared before her visit in North India.
Married Francis John Craig in 1952.