Ruth Suckow

Overview

Ruth Suckow Nuhn born Hawarden, IA August 6, 1892 (d. 1960). Quaker novelist and poet who supported conscientious objection in World War II.

Quotations

"[T]urning away from. . . the doctrine, not of power and might and darkness, but of goodwill, of lives of communal, not tribal effort, and light, more light." (New Hope, 1942)