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The Paris Review

Mary Lee Settle, The Art of Fiction No. 116

Mary Lee Settle is best known for her five volume series of novels called the Beulah Quintet. It is a monumental work that took twenty-eight years to research and write, and it traces the evolution of the people we have become, from seventeenth-century…