Mary Tarver Carroll

Carroll was a charter member of the PEN Women of Alabama,^[4] and vice president of the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs (AFWC).^[5] She was also statewide chair of the AFWC's writing department, organizing writing contests for members.^[6] She was a founding member of the Ozark Study Club (OSC). She was poet laureate of the Alabama Methodist Women's Conference. She read her poems and shared her stories at AFWC and OSC events.^[7][8]

Carroll's poems, articles, and stories appeared in anthologies,^[9][10][11] and in national periodicals including Christian Advocate,^[12] The Editor,^[13] The Writer,^[14] Ghost Stories,^[15] Story Parade, and Love Story Magazine.^[16]

• The Renewal (1905, novel based on the life of James Edward Oglethorpe)^[17]
• "Extension is the Keyword for 1916 for the State Federation" (1916, article)^[5]
• "More Tender" and "A Glowing Cross of Red" (1917, poems)^[12][18]
• "Violets" (1921, poem)^[9]
• "Chaperoned by Molly" (1921, story)^[16]
• "Thad Turns the Tables" (1922, story)^[19]
• "The Curse on the House of de Jarnie" (1923, reprinted 1929, story)^[20]
• "On Trudging On" (1923, short essay)^[13]
• "How Do You Feel?" (1926, essay)^[14]
• "Wanderlure" and "Green" (1928, poems)^[10]
• "The Tree with a Human Shadow" (1929, story)^[15]
• "The Mystery of the Jealous Queen" (1930, story)^[20]
• "Florida Adventure" (1941, story)^[21]
• The Man Who Would Not Wait (1941, children's biography of Aaron Burr)^[22]
• The Man Who Dared to Care (1942, children's biography of James Edward Oglethorpe, illustrated by Fay Turpin)^[23]
• Keep My Flag Flying: Daniel Webster (1945, children's biography of Daniel Webster)^[24][25][26]