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- Died
- Birth nameMary C. McDougal
- Mary M. Axelson was born on August 15, 1891 in Selmer, Tennessee, USA. She was a writer, known for Life Begins (1932), A Child Is Born (1939) and Una storia d'amore (1942). She died on November 27, 1973 in Miami, Florida, USA.
- Children
- In 1975 her daughter was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the fatal beating she gave her mother in a Miami hospital room. Mary had been ill with leukemia at the time her daughter attacked her.
- Play "Life Begins" was based on her experiences in a hospital maternity ward during the birth of her daughter.
- Her husband was a professor of economics.
- Worked on behalf of women's suffrage.
- Author, playwright, poet and real estate developer.
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