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Pick Up Your Name and Write: The Life of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
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About Pick Up Your Name And Write: The Life Of Wilma
"Well, I'm some kind of dame, all right," Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel responded when someone suggested that she was entitled to membership in the Colonial Dames of America. Pick Up Your Name and Write: The Life of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel is an intimate biography of a complex and sophisticated woman, who despite a lack of formal education, was a formidable intellectual and artist. It follows her journey from a sharecropper shack in the Oklahoma hills to the fertile fields of California's San Joaquin Valley where in 1936 she relocated with her family. Living initially on a relative's farm in Merced County and later in labor camps, they travelled the state looking for work. She started writing as a child but was not widely published until she was in her mid-fifties in the 1970s. Several publishers and editors became her champions during the renaissance of the small press movement which evolved at that time, providing a venue for previously excluded or marginalized voices. They helped her publish 50 collections over the following four decades. Her poetry captures the experience of the Dust Bowl survivors, but hers is a universal story of the dispossessed, as relevant today as it ever was. Her unique verses are loved by common folks as much as by academics and literary critics. This is her official biography, written by her longtime friend and lawyer. The two were so close was that the narrative morphs into memoir on occasion.
