Grace Lumpkin
Grace Lumpkin was born in 1891 in Milledgeville, Georgia, the ninth child of William W. and Annette Morris Lumkin. She was educated in common schools of South Carolina, earned a teacher's certificate from Brenau College in Gainesville, Georgia, and married Michael Intrantor in 1931. After completing college, she began work at the YMCA as a secretary, later becoming a public school teacher and farm demonstration agent. She produced books that have attracted high praise in the literary world. The general tone of her work is that of a champion of those who have been unable to successfully present their own perspective. Her first book, To Make My Bread was met with success, not only as a novel, but as a drama, presented in New York during the 1935-36 season. She died on March 23, 1980 in Columbia, South Carolina.