Taite, Pauline

Pauline has led a long and full life of varied experiences that bring such depth and warmth to her writing. She was born in 1928 on a small farm and ranch in rural Texas. That means she experienced the Great Depression up close and personal, World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam. She watched as the civil rights movement unfolded, and she grew up hearing about how women only gained the right to vote nationwide shortly before she was born. She left the farm life to go to the big city where she modeled and later ran her own interior decorating business. She raised five children whom she taugh...