Mary Martin Devlin

A former professor of English and creative writing at Mount Holyoke College, Mary Martin Devlin has a long-held fascination with the true scandal of the necklace that helped to ruin the reputation of Marie Antoinette. Devlin taught as a Fulbright professor in France and Tunisia and has translated and collaborated on books regarding the African AIDS epidemic and the politics of the Congo. She is the author of Precious Pawn , based on the memoir of an aristocrat in the decadent years of Louis XV,...See more

A former professor of English and creative writing at Mount Holyoke College, Mary Martin Devlin has a long-held fascination with the true scandal of the necklace that helped to ruin the reputation of Marie Antoinette. Devlin taught as a Fulbright professor in France and Tunisia and has translated and collaborated on books regarding the African AIDS epidemic and the politics of the Congo. She is the author of Precious Pawn , based on the memoir of an aristocrat in the decadent years of Louis XV, and Death in the Rainy Season , set among the American and European expat community of 1980s Zaire. See less