Merle Good
Merle Good | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 |
| Occupation | writer, publisher |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Eastern Mennonite University |
| Period | 1970s–present |
| Notable works | Happy as the Grass Was Green |
Merle Good (born February 10, 1946) is an American author and publisher born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.[1] He is best known for his 1971 novel Happy as the Grass was Green, an important work of American Mennonite literature, which was adapted into the film Hazel's People.[2]
Career[edit]
Good is the author of several books including Happy as the Grass was Green (1971), These People Mine (1973), Today Pop Goes Home (1993), Going Places (1994), Surviving Failure (and a Few Successes) (2018), and Christine’s Turn (2022). He has also written numerous children's books and some works of non-fiction.
Good is the also the founder of Good Enterprises, which publishes cookbooks, how-to books, and other books with Mennonite and Amish themes.[3] In 2018, he started a new publishing company Walnut Street Books.[4]
Early life[edit]
Good grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and earned a BA at Eastern Mennonite College, now Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia and a MDiv at Union Theological Seminary (New York City) in 1972.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Merle Good (1971). Happy as the Grass was Green. Herald Press.
- ^ "Hazel's People". Anabaptist Historians. 12 January 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
- ^ "Shunned:An outcast's lonely mission". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
- ^ "Cookbook among first offerings". Lancaster Online. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
- ^ "Good Family: Creative 'Benevolent' Capitalists," Crossroads, summer 2010, posted at issuu.com/easternmennoniteuniversity/docs/crossroads-summer-2010, pp. 17–19.