Mary Martin Devlin

Mary Martin Devlin is a historical novelist who spent most of her teaching career in English and American literature at Mount Holyoke College. She holds a Ph.D. in English and earlier degrees in French, and she held two Fulbright professorships abroad. Her novels include The La Motte Woman, about the swindler at the center of the 1785 diamond necklace affair, and Death in the Rainy Season, set in Zaire.