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Jessamyn West was born in Vernon, Indiana on July 18, 1902.
* She was a second cousin of Richard Nixon.
* She graduated from Whittier College in 1923.
* She taught in a rural school in Hemet, California from 1924 to 1928.
* She studied at the University of Oxford in 1929.
* She was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1930 and spent two years in a sanatorium.
* She published her first novel, The Friendly Persuasion, in 1945.
* The Friendly Persuasion was adapted into an Oscar-winning film in 1956.
* West died in Napa, California on February 23, 1984.