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About Mary Alice Downie
- Mary Alice Downie (born February 12, 1934) is an American-born Canadian writer.The daughter of Canadian parents, she was born Mary Alice Dawe Hunter in Alton, Illinois and was educated at Trinity College at the University of Toronto.
- She married John Downie in 1959.
- She was a reporter for Marketing from 1955 to 1956; from 1956 to 1957, she was an editorial assistant for the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
- Downie was publicity manager for the Oxford University Press in Toronto from 1958 to 1959.
- She subsequently worked as a freelance writer.
- In 1959, Downie and her husband moved to Pittsburgh; they moved to Kingston, Ontario in 1962.
- From 1973 to 1979, Downie was book review editor for the Kingston Whig-Standard.She has also contributed to The Horn Book Magazine, OWL, Chickadee, The Globe and Mail, the Ottawa Citizen and the Montreal Gazette.
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