About the Author

Aileen Kilgore Henderson grew up in Alabama. She served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. After attending Judson College and graduating from the University of Alabama she taught school in Alabama, Texas, and Minnesota. She is a member of Alabama Writers' Forum and Delta Kappa Gamma.

Reviews

Like Eugene Allen Smith, Aileen Henderson has done her state a service. Eugene Allen Smith's Alabama reintroduces a preeminent Alabamian who in his own time had a positive influence in shaping his native state and who left an enduring legacy of science and service.--Lewis Dean, Geological Survey of Alabama