name: Mary Lois Timbes
genres: Nonfiction, Historical Fiction
influences: Edith Wharton, Anton Chekhov, Tennessee Williams
avg_rating: 3.67
ratings_count: 21
about: Mary Lois Timbes Adshead has lived in New York City and Geneva, Switzerland, Fairhope, Alabama,Hoboken, New Jersey and now resides in Kingston, New York.Born in Mobile, she was raised in nearby Fairhope, a unique community founded in 1894 as a utopian colony to demonstrate the efficacy of Henry George's economic theory of the single tax. She graduated from the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education and went to college with the dream of becoming an actress. She studied acting in New York with Peggy Feury and Lee Strasberg and worked as a journalist and in public relations before marrying Jim Adshead and moving to Geneva where she founded an American community theater.Returning to Fairhope, she worked at the Marietta Johnson Museum and Mary Lois Timbes Adshead has lived in New York City and Geneva, Switzerland, Fairhope, Alabama,Hoboken, New Jersey and now resides in Kingston, New York.Born in Mobile, she was raised in nearby Fairhope, a unique community founded in 1894 as a utopian colony to demonstrate the efficacy of Henry George's economic theory of the single tax. She graduated from the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education and went to college with the dream of becoming an actress. She studied acting in New York with Peggy Feury and Lee Strasberg and worked as a journalist and in public relations before marrying Jim Adshead and moving to Geneva where she founded an American community theater.Returning to Fairhope, she worked at the Marietta Johnson Museum and did research on local history. She is the author of the nonfiction books THE FAIR HOPE OF HEAVEN, MEET ME AT THE BUTTERFLY TREE, and the eBook THAT WAS TOMORROW, a historical novel. Her books are based on the rich lore of Fairhope and the characters she learned of and remembers from her life there. ...more