Mary Clyde

{{Short description|American writer (born 1953)}}

{{infobox writer

|name=Mary Clyde

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1953|2|19}}

|birth_place=Provo, Utah, U.S.

|occupation=Writer

|nationality=American

|education=Brigham Young University
University of Utah (MA)
Vermont College (MFA)

|genre=Short story

|awards=Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (1999)

|children=5

}}

Mary Clyde (born February 19, 1953, in Provo, Utah) is an American short story writer, author of Survival Rates (W.W. Norton, 2001), which won the 1999 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction[http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=6807 W.W. Norton > Author Page > Mary Clyde]{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} from the University of Georgia Press. Clyde was praised for her work by The New York Times: "Clyde's writing has many strengths, but the greatest one is her ability to transform a shallow experience into something resembling hope. That she does so with intelligence and wit makes this collection as good as they get."{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/28/books/it-s-no-fun-being-normal.html| title=It's No Fun Being Normal| author=Karen Karbo| date=March 28, 1999| work=The New York Times}} She graduated from Brigham Young University, University of Utah, with an MA in 1977 and Vermont College with an MFA in 1997.{{Cite web |last=Guest |date=2024-10-09 |title=The Question of Sad, by Mary Clyde |url=https://www.associationmormonletters.org/2024/10/the-question-of-sad-by-mary-clyde/ |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=Dawning of a Brighter Day |language=en-US}} She is the mother of five children: Emily Clyde Curtis, Sarah, Rachel Jones, David, and Thomas.