Born the fourteenth child in a family of sixteen, Onnie Lee Logan decided early that midwifery would be her life's work. The experiences she gained from the hundreds of babies she birthed during 40 years makes for a biography that is rich and compelling.
"This magnificent, handsome, handful of an anthology . . ."* includes sixty-one substantial selections from the twentieth-century literature of women's lives: autobiographies, journals, and memoirs. "As varied in humanity as in geography,"** the women who
