Mary frances kennedy fisher biography examples

American writer and gastronome who was one of her century's great prose stylists. Name variations: Mary Frances Parrish (1939–41); (joint pseudonym with Dillwyn Parrish) Victoria Berne. Born Mary Frances Kennedy on July 3, 1908, in Albion, Michigan; died on June 22, 1992, in Glen Ellen, California; one of four children of Rex Brenton (a newspaper editor) and Edith Oliver (Holbrook) Kennedy; sister of Norah K.

Barr; attended public schools in Whittier, California, and private boarding schools in southern California; attended Illinois College, Occidental College, University of California, University of Dijon, Dijon, France; married Alfred Young Fisher, in 1929 (divorced 1938); married Dillwyn Parrish (a writer), in 1939 (died 1941); married Donald Friede (a book editor), in 1945 (divorced 1951); children: Anne (b.

1943); (third marriage) Mary Kennedy (b. 1946).

Selected writings:

Serve It Forth (1937); Consider the Oyster (1941); How to Cook