Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Mary Ellen Snodgrass (born February 29, 1944) is an American educator and writer of textbooks and general reference works.

Snodgrass was born on February 29, 1944, in Wilmington, North Carolina, to William and Lucy Robinson.

She attended University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1966) and Appalachian State University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Snodgrass taught English and Latin at Hickory High School and Lenoir Rhyne University for 23 years.

She married Hugh Snodgrass in 1984 and has a foster daughter, Deborah.

She lives in Hickory, North Carolina.

• Greek Classics (1988)

• Utopian Literature (1995)

• Satirical Literature (1996)

• Frontier Literature (1997)

• Southern Literature (1997)

• Nursing (1999)

• World Scripture (2001)

• Gothic Literature (2004)

• Kitchen History (2004)

• August Wilson (2004)

• Amy Tan (2004)

• Barbara Kingsolver (2004)

• Feminist Literature (2006)

• Walter Dean Myers (2006)

• Kaye Gibbons (2006)

• Underground Railroad (2007)

• Jamaica Kincaid (2008)

• Literature of Empire (2009)

• Nora Roberts (2009)

• Peter Carey (2009)

• The Civil War Era and Reconstruction (2011)

• Leslie Marmon Silko (2011)

She is a member of the North Carolina Library Board and in 2013 chaired VOYA's nonfiction honor list selection committee.

Snodgrass has reviewed reference books for Booklist, Choice Reviews, Isis, and others and has won several reference books-of-the-year awards from the American Library Association, Choice, and Library Journal.

Her books have also been named editor's choice by the Hickory Daily Record, Booklist, and the New York Public Library.

• World Clothing and Fashion (2013)

• Isabel Allende (2013)

• Settlers of the American West : The Lives of 231 Notable Pioneers, McFarland & Company (2015)

• World Ballet (2015)

• World Folk Dance (2016)

• American Colonial Women and their Art

• Women and their Art

• Frontier Women and their Art

• Lee Smith