Meet Caroline Henderson

Caroline Henderson grew up in rural Iowa, the daughter of a farmer prosperous enough to send her to Mount Holyoke College, where she earned a degree in language and literature in 1901. She decided to homestead in the Oklahoma panhandle with her husband, Will, and they remained Oklahoma farmers until their deaths in 1966. In addition to her farm duties, Caroline Henderson moonlighted as a writer for farm and ladies' publications in the years before World War I and for national publications such as Atlantic Monthly during the Depression. Her descriptions of the Dust Bowl years brought her national recognition.