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Mary Jane Ward (August 27, 1905 – February 17, 1981) was an American writer best known for her best-selling 1946 novel The Snake Pit. The 1948 movie The Snake Pit based on the novel earned six Academy Award nominations and won for Best Sound Recording.

Biography
Mary Jane Ward was born in Farimount, Indiana. She wrote book reviews for, was a regular contributor to, and was short story editor for the Evanston Daily News-Index in Evanston, Illinois where she lived through at least the late 1930s.