Mary Zurhorst Gray is the author of two books, a memoir, 301 East Capitol: Tales from the Heart of the Hill (2012) and a collection of comic essays, Ah Bewilderness! Muddling Through Life with Mary Z. Gray (1984).
She worked as an advertising copywriter for Woodward & Lothrop, a journalist for The Washington Post and The New York Times, and a speechwriter for the President’s Committee on Mental Retardation for the administrations of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. Gray’s family lived on Capitol Hill for five generations, since the 1840s; she lived at this address in the 1920s and 1930s in an apartment above the funeral parlor her family owned.
The Homes
301 East Capitol, SE, Washington, DC
Now the Haskell Center of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Mary Zurhorst Gray
301 East Capitol, SE, Washington, DC
Located in Capitol Hill neighborhood, Southeast