About the Author, Mary Sharratt ABOUT MARY Mary Sharratt’s explorations into the hidden histories of Renaissance women compelled her to write her most recent work, THE DARK LADY’S MASK (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016), based on the dramatic life of the ground-breaking poet, Aemilia Bassano Lanier. Born in Minnesota, Mary now lives with her Belgian husband
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