Background
Mary Buford Hitz was born on May 14, 1941, in Richmond, Virginia, United States. She is a daughter of John H. Bocock and Elisabeth Scott Bocock.
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
Mary Buford Hitz holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College.
George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Mary Buford Hitz holds a Master of Arts degree from the George Washington University.
(Elisabeth Bocock's vision was of a city that would take h...)
Elisabeth Bocock's vision was of a city that would take historic preservation seriously, of a society that would accept the importance of conservation. Impatient with process and society's conventions, she used her enormous personal magnetism to circumvent them when founding many of the institutions Richmond takes for granted today. In the creation of the Historic Richmond Foundation, the Carriage Museum at Maymont, the Hand Workshop, and the Virginia Chapter of the Nature Conservancy she played the dual roles of visionary and bulldozer. While part of a tradition of strong southern women, Elisabeth Bocock's tactics were unique, as she sought to convince others of both the practical and aesthetic links between preservation and the environment.
https://www.amazon.com/Never-Ask-Permission-Elisabeth-Richmond/dp/0813919932/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=never+ask+permission+hits&qid=1579163251&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmr0
2000
(I have been fascinated by the backlash from Hurricane Cam...)
I have been fascinated by the backlash from Hurricane Camille in Nelson County ever since it happened on August 19th, 1969. How COULD 29 inches of rain fall in 5 hours, which NOAA says is close to both the physical and theoretical limit of the possible. In the heart of the county, I care deeply about, lives were eclipsed and landscapes devastated in the blink of an eye. So a combination of fascination, love, and a too-vivid imagination pulled me into writing a novel set during the backlash of Hurricane Camille. These characters are fictional, but what happens to them comes right out of the histories recorded at the time. I am passionate about horses, so naturally, the horses in this book have personalities too. They and their riders take off on a camping trip in the Blue Ridge Mountains ignorant of what they are riding towards. A just-ignited love affair between the outfitter, Sam, and his summer intern, Lisl, is a secret held from Lisl’s Swiss boyfriend who has come with her for the summer, but not from Sam’s wife, Elsie, whose peculiar upbringing has left her in a self-protective cocoon of apathy.
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2013
Mary Buford Hitz was born on May 14, 1941, in Richmond, Virginia, United States. She is a daughter of John H. Bocock and Elisabeth Scott Bocock.
Mary Buford Hitz holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College and a Master of Arts degree from George Washington University.
Mary Buford Hitz taught in both Nigeria and the Ivory Coast. On her return to Virginia, she and her husband settled in Alexandria, where she worked for magazines and newspapers as a freelance journalist. Hitz has written for the Washington Post, the Richmond Times Dispatch, etc.
In 2000, the University Press of Virginia published her biography of her mother, Never Ask Permission: Elisabeth Scott Bocock of Richmond. It has had three editions. Her novel titled Riding to Camille, about horseback riders in the Blue Ridge who encounter the remnants of hurricane Camille, the second of three catastrophic Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the United States during the 20th century.
(Elisabeth Bocock's vision was of a city that would take h...)
2000(I have been fascinated by the backlash from Hurricane Cam...)
2013Mary Buford Hitz once told about what influences on her: "My work is most influenced by a life-long escape mechanism called reading. I particularly like biography, autobiography, and lively nonfiction. E. B. White has exerted the greatest influence on me, as I prize his clarity, simplicity of expression, and his self-deprecating sense of the ridiculous. I admire Susan Cheever’s Home before Dark and Nigel Nicholson’s Portrait of a Marriage as examples of how to be honest about a parent while still being loving. Ditto Geoffrey Wolff's The Duke of Deception. These are works I drew inspiration from long before I became involved in writing such a book myself."
Mary Buford Hitz is a member of the Rural Nelson, an environmental group.
In 1963 Mary Buford Hitz married Fred Hitz. They have a daughter, Eliza.