Byrd & Betta: A Lifelong Friendship
Ehrenfeld, Betta / Cornwell, Byrd
In 2013 Betta Ehrenfeld published a book of letters she wrote home from Sarah Lawrence College in the early 1940s-letters written to her parents and to her best friend Byrd. They are an extraordinary resource for anyone interested in life on the home front during World War II, the adventures of a precocious young woman at a progressive college during the war years, and many of the political and cultural changes taking place then. Even more int...