Lillian Pollak

Born in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen in 1915, Lillian became a radical at sixteen, raised three children, earned two graduate degrees at night, and taught school for twenty-five years. She’s still active—with the Granny Peace Brigade and the Raging Grannies. The Sweetest Dream, her historical novel about the radical politics of the 1930s, was published in 2008.