Beverly Lowry

Beverly Lowry (born August 10, 1938) is an American educator, novelist and short story writer.

Biography The daughter of David Leonard Fey and Dora Smith, both natives of Arkansas, she was born Beverly Fey in Memphis, Tennessee and grew up in Greenville, Mississippi. She was educated at the University of Mississippi and Memphis State University, receiving a BA from the latter institution in 1960. In 1965, the family moved to Houston and she began writing. In 1976, Lowry began teaching fiction writing at the University of Houston.

In the 1990s, Lowry moved to Los Angeles. She taught at George Mason University. She has served as president of the Texas Institute of Letters.

Awards 1979–80 National Endowment for the Arts fellow

Works Come Back, Lolly Ray (1977) – novel Emma Blue (1978) – novel Daddy's Girl (1981) – novel The Perfect Sonya (1987) – novel Breaking Gentle (1988) – novel Crossed Over: A Murder, A Memoir (1992), based in part on the story of Karla Faye Tucker The Track of Real Desires (1994) – novel Her Dream of Dreams: The Rise and Triumph of Madam CJ Walker (2002) – nonfiction Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life (2007) – nonfiction Who Killed These Girls? (2016) – nonfiction Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta (2022) – nonfiction