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/ 29 September 2005

Award-winning author drew on own experiences

Mary Lee Settle, novelist and founder of the Pen/Faulkner award for fiction, has died from lung cancer. She was 87. Settle died on Tuesday at her home in Ivy, said Jessica Neely, executive director of the Washington, DC-based Pen/Faulkner award. Settle founded the annual award in 1981 to honour the best work of fiction by an American author.