Jan 5, 2010

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule | About the Author

Harriette Gillem Robinet was born July 14, 1931, in Washington, D.C. She is the daughter of Richard Avitus and Martha Gray, both teachers. She spent her childhood in Arlington, Virginia, where her maternal grandfather had been a slave under General Robert E. Lee. She attended the College of New Rochelle in New York and received her master's and doctorate degrees from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She lives with her husband, McLouis Robinet, in Oak Park, Illinois. Before turning to writing in 1962, she worked as a bacteriologist in Children's Hospital, Washington,...