Vivien Kellems - Fighting Lady

About the Book

Born in solid, ethical New England of 1900 Vivien had high ambitions from the outset. She did public relations for Chatauquaa, and she was eternally curious about everything, and learned early about some of the insidious machinations of taxation. Unlike most of us, she felt she could do something about it, and she did, organizing rallies, having her own TV show agitating politicians (in fact pestering some of them mercilessly.) And always in the most ladylike fashion. She held the IRS at bay almost to her death in 1975. And all the time running her cable-grip company. She died in 1975 at 75.

About the Author

Born and educated in Boston, she was always a bookaholic, which alienated her from schoolmates, but she didn’t care. Having read Thomas Malthus in junior high school, she early joined the Population movement and ended up in California as director of the Los Angeles chapter of Zero Population Growth. She is a Great Books leader, and an animal rights activist, despite having just hit 80 years old. She has one daughter, Lesley, and one son Jeffrey and a Shih-Tsu named Missy, and regards that as a happy retirement. But one can always write, no matter the age!