In 1936, her aunt, Millie Hendricks Webb, bought Medearis a one-way ticket to New York City, where she could save expenses by living with her cousin and enter the Juilliard School to study piano. She was uncertain how she could afford the musical studies she had always aspired to. Mary, whose maternal grandparents had been vaudeville performers, inherited her family’s love for music.īy the time Medearis graduated from North Little Rock High School in 1933, her father had died, and her mother was ill. Her mother, Myrtle Hendricks, taught piano. Mary Medearis was born in North Little Rock (Pulaski County) on May 31, 1915. Ever tenacious, Medearis had great success as a writer and historian in spite of her humble beginnings-and partly because of them.
It has the distinction of having stayed in print longer than any other work of fiction by an Arkansan. Though she always considered herself a musician, Mary Myrtle Medearis was best known as the author of Big Doc’s Girl(1942), a novel that grew out of an assigned autobiographical short story in a creative writing class.
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