![]() ![]() Lippincott Company offered Medearis a contract to expand the story into a full-length novel. “Death of a Country Doctor” won the contest and was printed in the magazine. The teacher entered it in a competition sponsored by Story magazine in 1940. When the class was assigned to compose an autobiographical short story, Medearis wrote “Death of a Country Doctor” about the loss of her father. She enrolled in a speech class at New York’s Columbia University in 1938, but because the class was full, Medearis enrolled in a creative writing class. With financial help from an aunt after her father’s death during the Great Depression, Medearis studied music at the Juilliard School in New York City. Mary Myrtle Medearis was born in North Little Rock (Pulaski County) on May 31, 1915. The book is said to have stayed in print longer than any other work of fiction by an Arkansan. ![]() Published in 1942, Big Doc’s Girl is a novel written by Arkansas native Mary Medearis. ![]()
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