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Mary Wells Ashworth
American historian
Mary Wells Knight Ashworth (May 28, 1903 – September 12, 1992) was an American historian who wrote for Douglas Southall Freeman between 1945 and 1953. With Freeman, Ashworth worked on his seven volume biography on George Washington. After Freeman died before his biography was completed, Ashworth continued completing the biography as a member of Charles Scribner's Sons from 1954 to 1957.
With the George Washington biography, Ashworth was a bibliographer before she co-wrote the seventh volume with John Alexander Carroll. Apart from Washington, Ashworth's entries appeared in Notable American Women 1607-1950 and the World Book Encyclopedia. Between the late 1950s and late 1960s, Ashworth held executive positions for the English-Speaking Union and Hollins College. She was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship for biography in 1955 and was a co-winner of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography with George Washington, Volumes I-VII.