«The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.»

Jessamyn West*

* (Vernon, Indiana, U.S. 18-July-1902 / Napa County, California, U.S. 23-Feb-1984)
Author of short stories and novels. A Quaker from Indiana, she graduated from Fullerton Union High School in 1919 and Whittier College in 1923. There she helped found the Palmer Society in 1921.