Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Mildred Walker

Born: May 2, 1905
Died: May 27, 1998 (aged 93)
Bio: Mildred Walker was an American novelist who published 12 novels and was nominated for the National Book Award. She graduated from Wells College and from the University of Michigan. She was a faculty member at Wells College from 1955 to 1968.
Known for:
- Winter Wheat (1944)
- The Curlew's Cry (1955)
- If a Lion Could Talk (1970)
- Dr. Norton's wife (1938)
- Unless the Wind Turns (1941)






