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It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
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Birth: | 18th July, 1902 |
Death: | 23rd February, 1984 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Writer |
Mary Jessamyn West was born in Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana, USA. She was an American novelist and short story writer. She earned a BA degree in English from Whittier College in 1923. She also studied at the University of California, Berkeley and Oxford University. She wrote several novels include: The Friendly Persuasion, The Witch Diggers (Nominations: National Book Award for Fiction), A Matter of Time, Leafy Rivers, and Except for Me and Thee. She wrote several short stories include: Cress Delahanty, and Collected Stories of Jessamyn West. She has written other books include: To see the dream, Love is not what you think (nonfiction), The Quaker Reader, Hide and Seek, The secret look (poetry), The Massacre at Fall Creek (fiction, Won- Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize), The Woman Said Yes (memoir), and Double Discovery.
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