Ah. I'm sad. Maron is a wonderful author.

Margaret Maron, who believed stories have natural beginnings and endings and who enjoyed the serendipitous turns between them, has tied up her final loose end as an author, writing her own obituary before dying on Tuesday at the age of 82.

Maron, who lived with her husband on family land in Johnston County, was a prolific mystery writer who completed two series of fiction books: 10 Sigrid Harald books, about a New York Police lieutenant, and the 20-volume set of Deborah Knott books, about a district court judge in North Carolina. She also authored short stories and magazine pieces.

Maron ? pronounced MARE-uhn ? left a summary of her life for her family to post on Facebook after her death. It?s not much longer than a dust-jacket biography.

It noted that she was born in Greensboro in 1938 to C.O. and Claudia Stephenson Brown and that she grew up near McGee?s Crossroads, on her mother?s family?s farm, where her father raised cotton and tobacco. After graduating from Cleveland High School in Johnston County, she attended UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Chapel Hill and later, Brooklyn College and the City University of New York, ?yet managed not to graduate from any of them.?
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