Title: The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio
Description: The author describes her mother Evelyn's struggles with poverty in the 1950s as she tried to build a happy home for her ten children, with the help of wit, poetry, and prose during the contest era of the 1950s and 1960s.
Subjects: Biography, Family, Prize contests in advertising
Places: Defiance (Ohio)
People: Evelyn Ryan, Ryan family