The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less

Ryan, Terry

ISBN 10: 0743211227 / ISBN 13: 9780743211222

Published by Simon & Schuster, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743211227
• ISBN 13: 9780743211222
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

A woman describes her mother Evelyn's struggles with poverty in the 1950s as she tries to build a happy home for her ten children, with the help of wit, poetry, and prose during the contest era of the 1950s and 1960s. 75,000 first printing.

About the Author

Terry Ryan, the sixth of Evelyn Ryan's ten children, is the writing half of T. O. Sylvester, a long-running cartoon in the San Francisco Chronicle. The author of two books of poetry, she lives in San Francisco, California.