Mary King Rodge

Background

Mary King Rodge was born on October 23, 1914, in Oakland, California, United States. She is a daughter of Habersham and Mabel King.

Education

Mary King Rodge attended Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy (now University of Texas at El Paso). In 1935 she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tulane University. In 1964 Rodge obtained a Master of Arts degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 1995 she gained a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Career

From 1950 to 1960 Mary King Rodge was a legal secretary at Sun Oil Co. (now Sunoco LP) in Beaumont, Texas. From 1960 to 1970 she was a hearings reporter at Colorado Civil Service in the Department of Employment in Denver. From 1970 to 1980 Rodge was a referee at Colorado Civil Service in the Department of Employment in Colorado Springs.

In 2000 she was a faculty member at the College for Seniors at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. She has published Where the Creosote Blooms in 1999, at the age of eighty-four.

Achievements

• Mary King Rodge is best known as the author of Where the Creosote Blooms. This book received high praise from critics.

Works

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  • Where the Creosote Blooms

    (For a child growing up in the 1920s, El Paso seemed to be...)

    1999

Connections

In 1939 Mary King married William T. Gray. In 1950 they divorced. In 1967 she married William S. Rodge, a realtor. In 1992 he died. She has three children: Howell Morrow (deceased), William Turner, Robert King.

Father:

Habersham King

Mother:

Mabel King

ex-spouse:

William T. Gray

late spouse:

William S. Rodge

Son:

Howell Morrow

Son:

William Turner

Son:

Robert King

References

• Contemporary Authors
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