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Jessamyn West (writer)
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〔(list of FUHS Wall of Fame members ), accessed 2010-12-16〕 and Whittier College in 1923.〔〔 There she helped found the Palmer Society in 1921.
==Personal life==
West was born in Vernon, Indiana, to Eldo Roy West and Grace Anna Milhous. She is a second cousin of Richard Nixon through her mother's father. Her family left the state to move to California when she was the age of six.〔Meier, Gisela. ("Jessamyn West is city's other famous resident." ) Yorba Linda Star, January 6, 1979. pp 2. Accessed 06-06-2011.〕 The family included two brothers and a sister, Merle, Myron, and Clara. Growing up in the West Home in the same rural Yorba Linda region as Nixon, West attended a Sunday-school class taught by Nixon's father, Frank, whom she described as "a fiery persuasive teacher." She later wrote that Frank Nixon's version of the social gospel inclined her politically toward socialism.〔West, Jessamyn. ''Double Discovery: A Journey'' New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980; p. 125〕
She graduated from Whittier College with an English degree in 1923 and began teaching.〔"Author West Dies in Napa." The Sacramento Bee, Friday, February 24, 1984.〕 That year she also married Harry Maxwell McPherson, whom she had met at the college. They lived in Yorba Linda before West started graduate work at the University of California in 1929.〔Stilley, Joy. "Book is Childhood Dream Come True." Associated Press, Friday, May 30, 1969.〕 While there, she attended Oxford University briefly, and visited Paris. Prior to her oral exams at Berkeley, she was diagnosed with bilateral tuberculosis. In August, 1932, she was sent to a sanitorium, and two years later was sent home to be with her mother because she was not expected to live.〔 While in the hospital, she resumed writing to pass her time. West wrote in her autobiography that she felt she had nothing to live for and was tormented by the lives of those who did, but that her mother shared childhood memories of growing up as a Quaker farm girl in southern Indiana to provide her "a life to live in" while she regained her health. Slowly she began a recovery, but the writing continued.〔
West lived her last 24 years in Napa Valley California where her husband was a school superintendent.〔 She died from poor health following a stroke at the age of 81.〔("Jessamyn West dies of stroke at age 81." ) Yorba Linda Star, March 7, 1984. pp. 5.〕
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