Idella Parker

"This book is the one Idella Parker's fans begged her to write - the illustrated story that tells what happened before and after she worked for Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and adds frank new details to her earlier memoir about her years as cook, housekeeper, and confidante to Florida's Pulitzer Prize winner."--BOOK JACKET. "In 1940, when a comic misunderstanding brought the plucky young black woman and the strong-minded author of The Yearling together, Idella already had left home several times - once, at fifteen, to teach in a segregated school, and later to work as a domestic in West Palm…