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style="line-height:1.4em;">Mary Jessamyn West<br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1902-07-18</span>)</span>July 18, 1902<br /><a href="/wiki/Vernon,_Indiana" title="Vernon, Indiana">Vernon, Indiana</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">February 23, 1984<span style="display:none">(1984-02-23)</span> (aged 81)<br /><a href="/wiki/Napa_County,_California" title="Napa County, California">Napa County, California</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Writer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> (second cousin)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Mary Jessamyn West</b> (July 18, 1902 – February 23, 1984) was an American author of short stories and <a href="/wiki/Novels" class="mw-redirect" title="Novels">novels</a>, notably <i><a href="/wiki/The_Friendly_Persuasion" title="The Friendly Persuasion">The Friendly Persuasion</a></i> (1945).<sup id="cite_ref-brit_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <a href="/wiki/Religious_Society_of_Friends" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious Society of Friends">Quaker</a> from <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>, she graduated from <a href="/wiki/Fullerton_Union_High_School" title="Fullerton Union High School">Fullerton Union High School</a> in 1919<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Whittier_College" title="Whittier College">Whittier College</a> in 1923.<sup id="cite_ref-brit_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ObituarySacramento_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ObituarySacramento-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There she helped found the Palmer Society in 1921. She received an honorary Doctor of Letters (Litt.D) degree from <a href="/wiki/Whittier_College" title="Whittier College">Whittier College</a> in 1946.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She received the <a href="/wiki/Janet_Heidinger_Kafka_Prize" title="Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize">Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize</a> in 1975. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jessamyn_West_(writer)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>West was born in <a href="/wiki/Vernon,_Indiana" title="Vernon, Indiana">Vernon, Indiana</a>, to Eldo Roy West and Grace Anna Milhous.<sup id="cite_ref-Paris_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paris-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was a second cousin of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> through her mother's father. Her family left the state to move to <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> when she was the age of six.<sup id="cite_ref-Meier_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Meier-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The family included two brothers and a sister, Merle, Myron, and Carmen. Growing up in the <a href="/wiki/West_Home" title="West Home">West Home</a> in the same rural <a href="/wiki/Yorba_Linda,_California" title="Yorba Linda, California">Yorba Linda</a> region as Nixon, West attended a Sunday school class taught by Nixon's father, <a href="/wiki/Francis_A._Nixon" title="Francis A. Nixon">Frank</a>, whom she described as "a fiery persuasive teacher." She later wrote that Frank Nixon's version of the <a href="/wiki/Social_gospel" class="mw-redirect" title="Social gospel">social gospel</a> inclined her politically toward <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Work">Work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jessamyn_West_(writer)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>West's first publication was in 1939, a short story called <i>99.6</i> about her experiences in the sanitarium.<sup id="cite_ref-ObituarySacramento_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ObituarySacramento-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her early success came from publishing short stories in literary journals.<sup id="cite_ref-Paris_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paris-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her first book concerned Indiana Quakers, despite the fact that she grew up and lived during her adult life in California. Asked about this in an interview, she said, "I write about Indiana because knowing little about it, I can create it." Comparing herself to other authors who created fictional universes, she remarked: </p> <dl><dd>"<a href="/wiki/Philip_Roth" title="Philip Roth">Roth</a> wrote <i><a href="/wiki/The_Breast" title="The Breast">The Breast</a></i>. Would you ask him how he could do this since he had never been a breast? <a href="/wiki/Richard_Adams_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Adams (author)">Adams</a> wrote <i><a href="/wiki/Watership_Down" title="Watership Down">Watership Down</a>.</i> Would you ask him how he could do this since he admitted his rabbit knowledge came from a book about rabbits? ... And those <a href="/wiki/Hobbit" title="Hobbit">hobbits</a>!... I am a bigger risk-taker than these others. The Hoosiers can contradict me. No rabbit, hobbit, or breast has been known to speak up in reply to their exploiters."</dd></dl> <p>Her stories, although shaped by her imagination, are loosely based on tales told to her by her mother and grandmother of their life in rural Indiana.<sup id="cite_ref-ObituarySacramento_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ObituarySacramento-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Birdwells of her books <i><a href="/wiki/The_Friendly_Persuasion" title="The Friendly Persuasion">The Friendly Persuasion</a></i> and <i>Except for Me and Thee</i> are based on Joshua and Elizabeth Milhous, the great-grandparents she shares with President Nixon.<sup id="cite_ref-Stilley_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stilley-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Friendly_Persuasion"><i>The Friendly Persuasion</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jessamyn_West_(writer)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The Friendly Persuasion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Friendly_Persuasion" title="The Friendly Persuasion">The Friendly Persuasion</a></i> (1945) is West's most well-known work. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> book reviewer <a href="/wiki/Orville_Prescott" title="Orville Prescott">Orville Prescott</a> called it "as fresh and engaging, tender and touching a book as ever was called sentimental by callous wretches... There have been plenty of louder and more insistent books this year, but few as sure and mellow as <i>The Friendly Persuasion.</i>" </p><p>The novel was adapted into the 1956 movie <i><a href="/wiki/Friendly_Persuasion_(1956_film)" title="Friendly Persuasion (1956 film)">Friendly Persuasion</a>,</i> starring <a href="/wiki/Gary_Cooper" title="Gary Cooper">Gary Cooper</a> and directed by <a href="/wiki/William_Wyler" title="William Wyler">William Wyler</a>. It was nominated for an <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a> for Best Picture.<sup id="cite_ref-imdbmovie_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-imdbmovie-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>To See the Dream,</i> an autobiographical book, described her experiences as the movie's script writer. </p><p><i>Except for Me and Thee,</i> the sequel to <i>The Friendly Persuasion,</i> was adapted into a 1975 television movie, titled <i><a href="/wiki/Friendly_Persuasion_(1975_film)" title="Friendly Persuasion (1975 film)">Friendly Persuasion</a>,</i> starring <a href="/wiki/Richard_Kiley" title="Richard Kiley">Richard Kiley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-imdbtvmovie_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-imdbtvmovie-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cress_Delahanty"><i>Cress Delahanty</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jessamyn_West_(writer)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Cress Delahanty"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Cress Delahanty</i> (1953) is a collection of short stories about a sensitive and artistic teenage girl growing up in rural Orange County, California. Some of the stories were previously published in magazines including <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a>,</i> <i><a href="/wiki/Woman%27s_Day" title="Woman's Day">Woman's Day</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Ladies%27_Home_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="The Ladies' Home Journal">The Ladies' Home Journal</a>.</i> The book was a <a href="/wiki/Book_of_the_Month_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of the Month Club">Book of the Month Club</a> selection for January 1954. <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i> book reviewer Milton Merlin calls it, "a richly rewarding story of five mysterious, unpredictable and adventurous years in a girl's life on a Southern California ranch....Jessamyn West never reaches out for spectacular incidents. She doesn't have to, for growing up has enough excitement, amusement and heartbreak in itself for any novel. This is one that you'll remember and that will make you remember."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Published_works">Published works</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jessamyn_West_(writer)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Published works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Friendly_Persuasion" title="The Friendly Persuasion">The Friendly Persuasion</a></i> – 1945</li> <li><i>A Mirror for the Sky</i> – 1948</li> <li><i>The Witch Diggers</i> – 1951</li> <li><i>Cress Delahanty</i> – 1953</li> <li><i>Love, Death, and the Ladies' Drill Team</i> – 1955</li> <li><i>To See the Dream</i> - 1957</li> <li><i>Love Is Not What You Think</i> – 1959</li> <li><i>South of the Angels</i> – 1960</li> <li><i>The Quaker Reader</i> – 1962</li> <li><i>A Matter of Time</i> – 1966</li> <li><i>Leafy Rivers</i> – 1967</li> <li><i>Except for Me and Thee</i> – 1969</li> <li><i>Crimson Ramblers of the World, Farewell</i> – 1970</li> <li><i>Hide and Seek</i> – 1973</li> <li><i>The Secret Look</i> – 1974</li> <li><i>The Massacre at Fall Creek</i> – 1975</li> <li><i>The Life I Really Lived</i> - 1979</li> <li><i>The Woman Said Yes</i> – 1976</li> <li><i>Double Discovery</i></li> <li><i>The State of Stony Lonesome</i></li> <li><i>Collected Stories of Jessamyn West</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jessamyn_West_(writer)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-brit-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-brit_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-brit_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/640018/Jessamyn-West">"Jessamyn West (American writer) – Britannica Online Encyclopedia"</a>. Britannica.com<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2010-11-29</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Jessamyn+West+%28American+writer%29+%E2%80%93+Britannica+Online+Encyclopedia&rft.pub=Britannica.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2FEBchecked%2Ftopic%2F640018%2FJessamyn-West&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJessamyn+West+%28writer%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fullertonhigh.org/ourpages/auto/2010/9/14/49918806/WFAME-YR.xlw">list of FUHS Wall of Fame members</a>, accessed 2010-12-16</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ObituarySacramento-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ObituarySacramento_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ObituarySacramento_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ObituarySacramento_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Author West Dies in Napa." The Sacramento Bee, Friday, February 24, 1984.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.whittier.edu/alumni/poetnation/honorary">"Honorary Degrees | Whittier College"</a>. <i>www.whittier.edu</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2019-12-06</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.whittier.edu&rft.atitle=Honorary+Degrees+%7C+Whittier+College&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whittier.edu%2Falumni%2Fpoetnation%2Fhonorary&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJessamyn+West+%28writer%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Paris-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Paris_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Paris_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCarolyn_Doty1977" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Carolyn Doty (Fall 1977). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3546/the-art-of-fiction-no-67-jessamyn-west">"Jessamyn West, The Art of Fiction No. 67"</a>. <i>The Paris Review</i>. Fall 1977 (71).</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Paris+Review&rft.atitle=Jessamyn+West%2C+The+Art+of+Fiction+No.+67&rft.ssn=fall&rft.volume=Fall+1977&rft.issue=71&rft.date=1977&rft.au=Carolyn+Doty&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theparisreview.org%2Finterviews%2F3546%2Fthe-art-of-fiction-no-67-jessamyn-west&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJessamyn+West+%28writer%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Meier-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Meier_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Meier, Gisela. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yorbalindahistory.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0tescol--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4------0-0l--1-en-50---20-home---00031-001-1-1utfZz-8-00&a=d&cl=CL1&d=HASH01adc0ecb5d6c027d34eca25.9">"Jessamyn West is city's other famous resident."</a> Yorba Linda Star, January 6, 1979. pp 2. Accessed 06-06-2011.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">West, Jessamyn. <i>Double Discovery: A Journey</i> New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980; p. 125</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Stilley-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Stilley_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stilley, Joy. "Book is Childhood Dream Come True." Associated Press, Friday, May 30, 1969.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-imdbmovie-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-imdbmovie_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049233/">"Friendly Persuasion (1956)."</a> Internet Movie Database.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-imdbtvmovie-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-imdbtvmovie_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073020/">"Friendly Persuasion (1975)."</a> Internet Movie Database.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMerlin1954" class="citation news cs1">Merlin, Milton (10 January 1954). "<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Cress Delahanty' Tells Ranch Girl's Struggle with Her Adolescence". <i>Los Angeles Times</i>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ProQuest" title="ProQuest">ProQuest</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/166584653">166584653</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=%27Cress+Delahanty%27+Tells+Ranch+Girl%27s+Struggle+with+Her+Adolescence&rft.date=1954-01-10&rft.aulast=Merlin&rft.aufirst=Milton&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJessamyn+West+%28writer%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jessamyn_West_(writer)&action=edit&section=7" 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