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Mary Jessamyn West (July 18, 1902 – February 23, 1984) was an American author of short stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion (1945). A Quaker from Indiana , she graduated from Fullerton Union High School in 1919 [2] and Whittier College in 1923.
Jessamyn Charity West (born September 5, 1968) is an American library technologist and writer known for her activism and work on the digital divide. She is the creator of librarian.net. She is the Vermont Chapter Councilor of the American Library Association, and was Director of Operations at the group blog MetaFilter from 2005 to 2014. [1] .
Jessamyn West (born July 18, 1902, Jennings county, Indiana, U.S.—died Feb. 23, 1984, Napa, Calif.) was an American writer, a master of the short story and an accomplished novelist, who wrote with particular sensitivity about mother-daughter relationships.
The late Jessamyn West was a prolific and varied writer whose works include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplays, and even an opera libretto. She is remembered, however, for her numerous short stories that plumb rural American life without sentiment or oversimplicity.
Jessamyn West was a Quaker, a Westerner, and a woman, but she refused to be defined solely by these labels. She loved the western United States with its vast panoramas, and her attitudes and values reflected her gentle Quaker background.
Jessamyn West, The Art of Fiction No. 67. Interviewed by Carolyn Doty. Issue 71, Fall 1977. Mary Jessamyn West was born July 18, 1902, near North Vernon, Indiana, to Eldo Roy and Grace Anna Milhous West. When she was six years old, her family moved to Los Angeles County, settled for a time on an orange ranch.
Collected Stories of Jessamyn West contains all of the independent short fiction that she wished preserved. It is intended to be representative rather than definitive. The dozen or so stories omitted are, as the author stated, "not wayward offspring, to be hidden or denied.
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