Overview

Who’s your hero? What television show did you binge-watch, even before “binge-watching” was part of our vernacular? For Julie Marie Wade, the hero is Mary Tyler Moore, the television show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. From its premiere on Nick at Nite in 1992 until the death of its eponymous lead actress in 2017, this nonfiction novella follows our protagonist from her pre-teen years in Seattle through tenure at an academic institution in Miami—a journey modeled in surprising, tender, and humorous ways on Mary’s own journey from Roseburg to Minneapolis, to the WJM newsroom and beyond.

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“What an enchanting memoir. You don’t have to be a fan of The Mary Tyler Moore Show—or even know what it is—to be captivated by this funny, sad, inspiring journey of a clear-sighted woman for whom a fictional character is a guide for navigating life’s very real challenges. For MTM fans, of course, Julie Marie Wade’s book is a not-to-be-missed treat.”—Clifford Thompson, author of What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues and Twin of Blackness: A Memoir

Author Information

Julie Marie Wade is the author of many collections of poetry, prose, and hybrid forms, including the recent volumes Otherwise: Essays, selected by Lia Purpura for the 2022 Autumn House Nonfiction Book Prize, and Skirted: Poems. A winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, Wade is professor of creative writing at Florida International University and makes her home with Angie Griffin and their two cats in Dania Beach. In 1992, she began watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Nick at Nite and never stopped.

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