Mary Grace published, among other work, at least twenty stories in a series about "Sheriff John Charles Olson" in the Saturday Evening Post from 1938 to 1953.

Marchette was known chiefly for her biographies of English historical figures; her 1950 Shakespeare of London was a bestseller, and Two Gentle Men: The Lives of George Herbert and Robert Herrick (1959) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1960.

She continued to write similar material, as well as romance stories for women's magazines, through much of the 1940s, including several sports-themed novels - Blocking Back (1938), Shattuck Cadet (1941), and Shift to the Right (1944).

In 1950 Chute published her first major work aimed at the adult market, The Fields are White, a novel of marriage and manners.

[4] It went on to be a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction in 1957, and was the basis for a modestly successful 1960 Frank Loesser Broadway musical, Greenwillow.