Grace Lumpkin

The radical novels that Grace Lumpkin wrote in the 1930s, To Make My Bread and A Sign for Cain, represent two of the best examples of literary social realism produced in response to the economic and social turmoil of the Great Depression in the U.S.

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Inez Denny

American artist and writer whose book Blazing The Way, published in 1909, recounted her family’s Oregon Trail migration from Cherry Grove, Illinois, to Portland, Oregon, and the subsequent founding of Seattle.

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