Jessamyn West: A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography

Jessamyn West was born in 1902 to a farming family in Indiana, though when still young, they moved to California, eventually to become successful citrus growers. Jessamyn studied to become a teacher and did, in fact, teach for a while in a one‐room school, but desiring to further her education, she spent a while at Oxford University in 1929. On her return to the USA she enrolled at the University of California in Berkeley. Just before completing her doctoral examinations, however, she was diagnosed as having advanced tuberculosis and spent two years in the terminal ward of a hospital before...