Mother and Child, Wade Reynolds In 1962, Veronica Troy, who is always called Ronnie, is 29. She is beautiful, like her two younger sisters, ...

Patience Gray was born in Surrey into an Edwardian home, which she found oppressive, in 1917. She got an excellent education, however, at Qu...

Heather Fairfield as Elnora, 1990 A Girl of the Limberlost tells the story of Elnora, a “country girl” living at the edge of the Limberlost...

Louise Erdrich At 19, Patrice (whose friends call her Pixie) is the sole support of her household, her mother and younger brother. She works...

Ruth Asawa, 1980 Ruth Asawa was born in 1926 in Norwalk, California to a family of Japanese truck farmers. The middle child of seven, everyo...