Marja mills biography of martin
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Author Q&A: Marja Mills
Born and reared in Madison, Wisconsin, Marja Mills is a 1985 graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
Marja mills biography of martin
Her interest in other cultures led to studies in Paraguay, Spain and Sweden. A former reporter for the Chicago Tribune, she now lives in downtown Chicago.
She often spends time in Madison and her father's hometown of Black River Falls, Wisconsin, about half the size of Monroeville, Alabama, where she met and eventually moved next door to Harper "Nelle" Lee and her sister, Alice Fitch Lee.
Mills has memories of her dad talking about living in Pass Christian for a time in 1943, and what a different climate and culture it was for a 6-year-old boy from Black River Falls.
He and his mother stayed in a hotel when his father was stationed nearby in the Navy.
"My dad used to follow around the hotel's maintenance person, an African-American man called Brown, who was endlessly kind to a small boy who had no one to play with there," she said.