![]() ![]() Walker married Ferdinand Schemm in 1927, and the success of Fireweed helped finance the young family's move from the Midwest to Montana. The success of this novel and its publication that year by Harcourt Brace initiated a partnership that Walker maintained for nearly half a century and eleven more novels, ending with the 1970 publication of If a Lion Could Talk. From Wells, she continued her education and literary career at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, receiving her Master's degree in English in 1933, along with the Avery Hopwood Award for her novel Fireweed. Walker entered Wells, a private women's college in New York, under a tuition waiver granted for ministers' daughters in 1922 she was very enthusiastic about this opportunity because she had had ambitions to become a writer since the age of seven. ![]() Mildred Walker's prodigious literary career began when she was only twenty-one with the publication of an essay titled "Gargoyles," written during her senior year at Wells College, and would eventually culminate with the publication of thirteen novels. ![]()
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