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Mary Collins Barile, a playwright, author, and historian, has written about American cookbooks, the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, Mark Twain, the Santa Fe Trail, and frontier theater in America. She is currently working on a film documentary about nineteenth-century actress Maude Adams. Mary lives in Boonville, Missouri. She works at the Center for the Arts and Humanities at the University of Missouri.

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