Noted: Born in 1902, Mildred Fish grew up poor on the west side of Milwaukee in a series of boardinghouses, the youngest daughter of an unreliable father. After his death, her mother took her daughter to Maryland for a few years. But Mildred returned here to attend the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and taught English as a grad student. At UW she also met Arvid Harnack, a visiting scholar from Germany working on his doctorate. They married in 1926.
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