Meet Author Marilyn A. Hudson

Marilyn A. Hudson is the Director of Library Services at Southwestern Christian University in Bethany, Oklahoma. Prior, she served as public services librarian for the Metropolitan Library System, an Archives Fellow,  and as a library media specialist for Norman Public Schools. 

Listed in the 1997 Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, she was the 2002 recipient of the OLA Outstanding New Librarian Award, and member of the Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, Golden Key, and Phi Kappa Phi. Her general research interests are in history, especially social, religious, and church history; women’s studies; mythology, folklore and storytelling. 

Hudson was lead writer and editor of the book, One Night Club and A Mule Barn: The First 60 Years of Southwestern Christian University and authored, Those Pesky Verses of Paul: Examining Women in the New Testament, Elephant Hips are Expensive, The Bones of Summer, In Her Own Words, Off the Page!: Basic Tips for Story Time, and others. She is currently finishing a novel with a co-author and finishing off two other large projects. 

She received a B.A. in History and an M.L.I.S. from the University of Oklahoma.

Marilyn A. Hudson was born and raised in Kansas but now lives in Norman, Oklahoma with her husband and two dogs.