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Marasco's research team--which includes postdoctoral fellows Si-Yi Chen and Yousef Khouri and Graduate student Jessamyn Bagley--announced its finding in the June 21 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
...DIED. Jessamyn West, 81, gentle-spirited novelist and short-story writer, best known for her first collection of stories, The Friendly Persuasion, about a Quaker family on the Indiana frontier during the Civil War; in Napa, Calif. Born into a Quaker family (Richard Nixon is her distant cousin), West set much of her fiction in her native Indiana, although she lived most of her life in California. "I am by all I know a Californian," she once said, "and by all I imagine a Hoosier...
...perhaps cared for Richard "as much out of duty as out of real love," was "repressed," "anger-filled" and "castrating." Abrahamsen offers scant evidence for these judgments, relying heavily upon a single, pathetic letter from Richard as a lonely ten-year-old. The ex-President's cousin. Novelist Jessamyn West, says she tried to talk Abrahamsen out of his opinion of Hannah, and his depiction of the father, Frank Nixon, as "brutal...
Quaker Meetings. The resolve necessary for such an act apparently derived from their mother, Grace, who once nursed Jessamyn when the author was gravely ill. At the time Jessamyn was 28 years old, married and about to receive her Ph.D. She found that she had tuberculosis and was rushed to a sanatorium. Two years later, about 1937, she was sent home to die. Grace had other ideas. Recovery was plainly harrowing: "I could not live in either the past which was past, or the present from which I was locked away." Jessamyn remembers and describes with some retrospective amusement...
Grace nursed Jessamyn's body but could do nothing about her gloomy and exhausted spirit until she hit upon the idea of reconstructing her Quaker heritage for her daughter. "Grace gave me southern Indiana," writes Jessamyn, recalling how day after day for a year and a half her mother told her stories about courtship and farming, blizzards and Quaker meetings. "There was no pain there for me. It was nothing I once possessed and had lost; it was not a future forbidden to me." And so she was slowly wooed back to life. Eventually, she even turned her mother...