Walker was born in 1905 in Philadelphia to a schoolteacher mother and a preacher father-a family for whom the right words had power. The novels’ richly developed female characters reflect Walker’s own ambivalence about the state: its traditions, weather, landscape, and capacity to nurture or starve women.
But three of her best-known works- Winter Wheat, The Curlew’s Cry, and If a Lion Could Talk-are set in Montana. “Montana was so vast and strange to me that I didn’t dare to write about it for almost ten years,” novelist Mildred Walker said during the 1960s, a decade after she had left the state. Photograph by Yaw, MHS Photo Archives 945-467 Mildred Walker studiously cultivated the image of a proper doctor’s wife, even as she dedicated herself to her writing.
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