Melba Beals grew up in a middle class black suburb of Little Rock. She had a room of her own where she kept stuffed animals, listened to Nat...

Irina Ratushinskaya was born in Odessa, then part of the U.S.S.R., in 1954. She graduated in physics and married Igor Gerashchenko, a physic...

At 16, Nao Yasutani begins a diary, telling of her life in Japan after she and her family had to leave Sunnyvale, California, because her fa...

The Scarlet Letter by Hugues Merle 1861 Hester Prynne was raised in England, but married a scholar whose desire for knowledge took them to A...

Maria Campbell tells her own story in the book Halfbreed [published 1973 and updated 2019]. She was born in 1940 near Spring River, Saskatc...

Amelia Warner, BBC production, 2000 Lorna grows up among the Doones, who occupy a valley near Exmoor in the 17th century. She believes she i...

Lisa Fittko was born in 1909 into a large Jewish family in Hungary. Moving to Berlin at a young age, she witnessed the rise of the Nazis and...