She first met Will when watching a play about Jesse James, which Will starred “From the balcony I fell in love…I loved his boots and his white cowboy hat I loved how he sang and strummed the guitar.Will Osborne is an actor, musician, playwright, and Mary’s occasional collaborator on her books.After spending some time traveling, Mary Pope Osborne settled in New York City and married Will Osborne in 1976.After almost dying twice, she moved back to the United States where she worked as a window dresser, a medical assistant, and Russian travel consultant.In Kathmandu, she got blood poisoning and stayed in a hospital overlooking the Himalayas for months.She almost died in an earthquake in northern Afghanistan.She rode in vans with young European’s travelling through Asian countries, including Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal.In the early 1970's - camped in cave on island of Crete (located south of Greece, above South Africa).
She graduated from college in the early 1970’s.Mary loved to study about other cultures while she was in college.In her junior year, she switched to become a religion major.Mary studied drama at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill her first 2 years of college.Maybe those early environments explain why mythical and historical times and places seem more real to me than the modern world of shopping malls and freeways.” - Mary Pope Osborne So when I heard stories of American history, I felt as if those dramas were taking place right in my own backyard. “When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat.She spent multiple hours at the community theatre (acting and working backstage).Older sister - Natalie (helps write some of the books).She was a very adventurous child and liked to travel.She was afraid of a lot of different things like bugs, spiders, and the ocean.Dad retired to a small town in North Carolina.Before she was 15, she lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida, Virginia and North Carolina.
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