Mary ellen hopkins biography

Hopkins was born in Peoria, Illinois and grew up in the midwestern United States.
Mary Ellen Hopkins was an American quilter and author.
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Mary Ellen Hopkins

Mary Ellen Hopkins (1932–2013) was an American quilter and author.

Life

Hopkins was born in Peoria, Illinois and grew up in the midwestern United States. She attended Drury College and the University of Missouri.

Hopkins married and had four children. In 1963, she moved with her family to Santa Monica, California. She worked from home making men's shirts.

Quilting

In 1977, Hopkins opened a quilt shop in Santa Monica called Crazy Ladies and Friends. Hopkins' short book, The Double Wedding Ring Book, was released in 1981 and her first full-length book, The It's Okay If You Sit on My Quilt Book, in 1982. She founded a company, ME Publishing First Printing, to publish the latter.

Classes offered at her shop developed into invitations to give lectures. Following the release of The It's Okay If You Sit on My Quilt Book, Hopkins began teaching workshops to quilt shop owners interested in her techniques. She lectured throughout the United States and internationally.

Hopkins sold her shop in the late 1990s, continuing to give

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Mary Ellen Hopkins

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Biography: Dr. Mary Ann Hopkins

Dr. Hopkins brings diverse interests in the arts and the sciences to her career in medicine. In her dual roles as assistant professor of surgery at New York University and attending surgeon at Bellevue Hospital Center-New York University Medical Center, she tries to instill in medical students and residents what it means to be a caring and compassionate physician.

Mary Ann Hopkins took the classical route to becoming a physician—by way of a master's degree in history and philosophy of medicine from King's College, Cambridge University. During her undergraduate years at Harvard, where she majored in classics (and graduated with high honors as a member of Phi Beta Kappa), she spent the summers of 1982, 1983, and 1984 working alongside her younger sister as a volunteer in the orphanages of southern India and Somalia. "My experiences [there] kept coming back into my thoughts," she recalls. "We had accompanied the children to the hospitals, lived in the special care center for physically, mentally, and emotionally challenged children, and some even die