Margaret Verble
{{short description|American author}}
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| name = Margaret Verble
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| birth_place = Greenville, KY, U.S.
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| nationality = Cherokee Nation, American
| education = University of Kentucky (BA, MA, EdD)
| notable_works = Maud's Line
| website = {{URL|margaretverble.com}}
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Margaret Verble is a Native American author and citizen of the Cherokee Nation . She is best known for her debut novel, Maud’s Line, a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.https://www.amazon.com/Mauds-Line-Margaret-Verble/dp/0544705246 In addition to her literary work, Verble has had a long career in education, consulting, and research, particularly in organ and tissue donation.{{Cite journal |last=Verble |first=Margaret |last2=Worth |first2=Judy |date=1996-12-01 |title=The Case against More Public Education to Promote Organ Donation |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/090591999600600410?icid=int.sj-abstract.similar-articles.1 |journal=Journal of Transplant Coordination |language=EN |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=200–203 |doi=10.1177/090591999600600410 |issn=0905-9199|url-access=subscription }}
Early life and education
Verble was born in Greenville, KY, but grew up in Nashville, Tennessee.{{cite web |last1=McCants |first1=Cassidy |title=Back to the land |url=https://www.tulsapeople.com/the-voice/writers/cassidy-mccants/back-to-the-land/article_da625418-eeae-56f2-87ee-41af58c79ffb.html |website=tulsapeople.com |accessdate=February 27, 2020 |date=February 6, 2019}} She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree, Master's degree, and Ed.D. from the University of Kentucky.{{cite web |title=A&S Alumna Named Finalist for Pulitzer Prize |url=https://english.as.uky.edu/alumna-named-finalist-pulitzer-prize |website=english.as.uky.edu |accessdate=February 27, 2020 |date=May 24, 2016}} After completing her undergraduate studies, she returned to Nashville and taught English at Hillsboro High School. She later pursued graduate studies at the University of Kentucky, earning both a Master’s degree in English Education and a Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction.{{Cite web |title=Margaret Verble {{!}} womenwriters.as.uky.edu |url=https://womenwriters.as.uky.edu/presenters/margaret-verble |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=womenwriters.as.uky.edu}}
Career
Verbles's first novel Maud's Line was named a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.{{cite web |title=Finalist: Maud's Line, by Margaret Verble |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/margaret-verble |website=pulitzer.org |accessdate=February 27, 2020}} Maud's Line focuses on her Cherokee nation heritage during the 1920s through the lens of a fictional woman named Maud Nail.{{cite web |last1=Eblen |first1=Tom |title=Lexington author's first published novel is Pulitzer finalist |url=https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/tom-eblen/article85797332.html |website=kentucky.com |accessdate=February 27, 2020 |date=June 24, 2016}} She later published a prequel to her first novel titled Cherokee America, set in 1875.{{cite web |last1=Westervelt |first1=Eric |title=Author Mines Family And Tribal History For Novel 'Cherokee America' |url=https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/02/26/cherokee-america-margaret-verble |website=wbur.org |accessdate=February 27, 2020 |date=February 26, 2019}} She has presented her research in several academic journals, such as Progress in Transplantation,{{Cite journal |last=Verble |first=Margaret |last2=Worth |first2=Judy |date=1998-06-01 |title=Adequate Consent: Its Content in the Donation Discussion |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/090591999800800208 |journal=Journal of Transplant Coordination |language=EN |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=99–104 |doi=10.1177/090591999800800208 |issn=0905-9199|url-access=subscription }} Transplantation Proceedings, and The Journal of American Folklore. In addition, she presented her research findings at both national and international medical conferences.
From 2004 to 2013, Verble served as a consultant to NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) in the United Kingdom. {{Cite journal |last=Bracher |first=Mike |last2=Madi-Segwagwe |first2=Banyana C. |last3=Winstanley |first3=Emma |last4=Gillan |first4=Helen |last5=Long-Sutehall |first5=Tracy |date=2021-09-01 |title=Family refusal of eye tissue donation from potential solid organ donors: a retrospective analysis of summary and free-text data from the UK National Health Service Blood and Transplant Services (NHS-BT) National Referral Centre (1 April 2014 to 31 March 2017) |url=https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/9/e045250 |journal=BMJ Open |language=en |volume=11 |issue=9 |pages=e045250 |doi=10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045250 |issn=2044-6055 |pmid=34518244|pmc=8438759 }}
In 2021, Verble published When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky,https://www.amazon.com/When-Two-Feathers-Fell-Sky/dp/0358554837{{Cite news |last=Schaub |first=Michael |date=2021-10-14 |title='Two Feathers' is a flawed but gripping novel of racism in the Prohibition-era South |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/1045751628/margaret-verble-two-feathers-review |access-date=2025-05-13 |work=NPR |language=en}} which is set in 1920s Nashville and centers on a Cherokee horse-diver working at a city zoo. The novel was included in Booklist's Best Novels of 2021.
Her fourth novel, Stealing (2023), deals with the theme of Native American boarding schools and the forced assimilation of Indigenous children. {{Cite web |title=Stealing: A Novel: Verble, Margaret: 9780063267053: Amazon.com: Books |url=https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Novel-Margaret-Verble/dp/0063267055 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241204102644/https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Novel-Margaret-Verble/dp/0063267055 |archive-date=2024-12-04 |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=www.amazon.com |language=en-us}}
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