

Some of her books were set in Montana, such as Unless the Wind Turns (1941), Winter Wheat (1944), and The Curlew’s Cry (1955). In 1933 she moved with her family to Great Falls, Montana, where she did most of her writing.

After receiving a bachelor’s degree in literature from Wells College in Aurora, New York, in 1926, she obtained a master’s degree from the University of Michigan. Walker was born on May 2, 1905, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Beginning in the 1990s, however, her books were republished, generating a new wave of interest and critical discussions. Although her work was fairly popular when first published, by the 1970s it was largely ignored and went out of print. novelist Mildred Walker was the author of only 13 novels.
