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Graduated Arizona State College, 1940. Became an elementary school teacher, teaching in America, France, and perhaps most significantly, in internment camps for Japanse-Americans in WWII. Frequently used her teaching experience as a base for her fiction. First published story was "Come On, Wagon" in "The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction" in 1951. With "Ararat" (1951) she began her sequence of stories about "The People", her main achievement. The stories are about a the experiences of a group of aliens with advanced mental powers stranded on Earth. Outwardly human, they are morally superior, but must somehow come to terms with their identity, while fitting in to our society as painlessly (for us as well as for them) as possible. The parallels with her WWII experiences are unmistakable. Throughout her stories, (both "The People" sequence and others) is a warmth, gentleness and sense of the worth of human beings.
