Jessamyn West

The Friendly Persuasion is an American novel published in 1945 by Jessamyn West. It was adapted as the motion picture Friendly Persuasion in 1956. The book consists of 14 vignettes about a Quaker farming family, the Birdwells, living near the town of Vernon in southern Indiana along "the banks of the Muscatatuck, …

Brimming “with humor and charm and youthful animal spiritsâ¦There is much true wisdom in Cress Delahanty.” (The New York Times)West writes “gracefully, occasionally poetically, in a voice both innocent and brave.” (The Washington Post)Set in rural California in the 1940s, this novel wittily portrays an adolescent girl …

The Massacre at Fall Creek is a book by Jessamyn West.