In 1967, she moved to Canada to start a teaching career, married a local coroner and settled in Kipling, Saskatchewan, where she eventually became a school principal.
There, she met and married her Canadian husband Robert Balogh, a coroner and ambulance driver, and settled in the small prairie town of Kipling, Saskatchewan.
[1] As an adult, Balogh discovered the world of the Regency romance as written by Georgette Heyer.
Balogh began her writing career in 1983, when she wrote her first novel A Masked Deception in the evenings at the kitchen table while home and family functioned around her.
Mary Balogh won the Romantic Times Award for best new Regency writer in that year.