The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less

A woman describes her mother Evelyn's struggles with poverty in the 1950s as she tries to build a happy home for her ten children, with the help of wit, poetry, and prose during the contest era of the 1950s and 1960s. Reissue. 150,000 first printing. (A DreamWorks film, releasing Fall 2005, starring Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, & Laura Dern) (Biography)