Writing for Her LifeYou are either a Mildred Walker enthusiast, as the Philadelphia Inquirer once declared, or you are missing one of the best writers on the American scene. As Mildred Walkers daughter, Ripley Hugo was in the latter category. This biography of the author of thirteen celebrated novels is also Hugos search for the writing life of a mother known to her children as a socially correct middle class doctors wife rather than as the ambitious, imaginative, often