Keane's first novel, The Walking People, published in 2009, chronicles the life of two sisters who leave their small Irish village for New York. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Vogue, The Daily Beast, The Antioch Review, New York Stories, The Recorder, and The Baltimore Review. In 2001, Keane was hired as a receptionist at a New York literary agency, where she met her agent.
Keane lives outside New York City with her husband and their two sons, Owen and Emmett. Raised Catholic, Keane wrote an essay for Vogue Magazine in 2018, about her decision to leave the Catholic Church. She later attended the University of Virginia, where she earned her M.F.A. Keane graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University, with a B.A. Personal life īorn in the Bronx, New York City, and raised in Pearl River, New York with her sisters, Keane attended Immaculate Heart Academy in Washington Township, New Jersey.
In 2011 she was named one of the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35," and in 2015 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction. She is the author of The Walking People (2009), Fever (2013), and Ask Again, Yes (2019).
Mary Beth Keane is an American writer of Irish parentage.
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