Harriet Walker

Harriet Thomas Walker was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, of missionary parents in 1927. She was homeschooled with her brother and sister until she reached the age of ten when her parents returned to the United States. She completed high school in Coffeyville, Kansas and obtained a BA at York College in York, Nebraska. Some years later, she furthered her education at the University of Idaho earning an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Foundations of Education.

In June of 1949, Harriet married Harold Walker, a York College classmate who had returned to college after serving as a B-29 pilot in World War II. She and her husband dedicated their professional years to public education although her passion was always to become an author. Throughout her life, she kept carbons of letters that she typed to her family and friends. After retiring she went back to those letters to shape the wonderful books she has published. Harriet died in 2013 in Bishop, Georgia.