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For My Father: the Story of My Life (1910-2000): Volume One of an Autobiography

For My Father: the Story of My Life (1910-2000): Volume One of an Autobiography

Randers-Pehrson, Justine Davis

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Publisher Price: $30.95

ISBN10: 0595326242
ISBN13: 9780595326242
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: Jul 29 2004
Pages: 516
Weight: 1.66
Height: 1.24 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
The author had a varied view of the shifting world during nine decades of the Twentieth Century. Her conventional life as an Army daughter ended abruptly in 1922 when her father died. She lived in Washington DC with her widowed mother, with the exception of years at college in the US and abroad.

Her professional life as a staff member at the Library of Congress ended when an irregular relationship evolved into pregnancy. She and the child and the child's father joined forces in southern Maryland, on an abandoned farm where all their neighbors were black. During the following 17 years, the author was the family breadwinner, with three children, a situation that at one time led the family to near destitution. She recovered, and gradually moved up the Civil Service career ladder to positions of responsibility, at last as a translator for the US Patent Office. In subsequent years, she became interested in ancient history and traveled extensively, gathering material for a book on the Later Roman Empire. Other historical works followed, as well as historical novels.

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