Hi, all friends and followers,
Please know how much I appreciate followers to my website. I have news to share with you--and a new site where you can contact me for your book club with ease--and also get yourself a book. And get this: With the publication of Who By Fire via Empress Editions, I will be teaching a Master Class—if you pre-order 10 books, the Master class that will run mid-spring after February 24th will be FREE: A $500 value—Or simply pre-order for your book club—I’ll come talk to your club via Zoom.
About Mary L. Tabor
Tabor, Mary: - Mary L. Tabor is an award-winning writer known for her lyrical prose, narrative daring, and deep emotional intelligence. Her work spans fiction, memoir, and personal essay, often exploring the liminal spaces between love and loss, memory and reinvention, silence and revelation. With a voice as precise as it is poetic, she invites readers into the quietest corners of the human heart.
A late-blooming literary force, Tabor published her debut story collection, The Woman Who Never Cooked, to critical acclaim after a distinguished career in journalism, corporate communications, and motherhood. Her memoir, (Re)Making Love, earned praise for its unflinching candor and literary elegance, charting her midlife transformation with both vulnerability and insight.
Her novel Who By Fire—now reissued by Empress Editions—is widely regarded as her most ambitious work to date. Lauded by Pulitzer Prize winners and literary critics alike, it showcases Tabor's gift for layered structure and emotional resonance. Pulitzer finalist Lee Martin called it "a lyric meditation on love and desire," while International Herald Tribune's Michael Johnson declared it work that "ranks her alongside the finest novelists working today."
Who by Fire: special edition of the novel
A haunting meditation on love, loss, and the complexities of memory, Who By Fire is the acclaimed novel from literary master Mary L. Tabor. Originally praised for its lyrical structure and emotional depth, this reissue brings a quiet yet resonant story to a new generation of readers.
The Books:
(Re)Making Love: a memoir
When Mary L. Tabor’s husband of 21 years announced, “I need to live alone,” she cratered and turned to the only comfort she had left: her writing. What resulted was (Re)MAKING LOVE: a sex after sixty story, a fresh, witty, funny and brutally honest memoir of everything she felt and did during her long journey back to happiness. This deeply personal account of her saga takes the reader from Washington, DC to Missouri to Australia through the good, the bad and the foolish from Internet dating to outlandish flirting and eventually to Paris where an unexpected visitor changed the author’s life forever. Her story offers hope and joy told with passion and brilliance that is highly refreshing with the single and most prominent message—it is never too late to find love—and oneself even after age sixty and beyond.
The Woman Who Never Cooked: Second Edition
“The American adult woman is featured in this debut collection of stories about love, adultery, marriage, passion, death, and family. There is a subtle humor here, and an innate wisdom about everyday life as women find solace in cooking, work, and chores. Tabor reveals the thoughts of her working professional women who stream into Washington, D.C., from the outer suburbs, the men they date or marry, and the attractive if harried commuters they meet."Her collection of short stories The Woman Who Never Cooked, published when she was 60, won the Mid-List Press First Series Award. “Mary Tabor writes with astonishing grace, endless passion, and subtle humor,” reviewer Melanie Rae Thon noted.