M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy) Fisher, 1908-

M.F.K. Fisher, author and food writer, was born Mary Frances Kennedy in Albion, Michigan, on July 3, 1908. She was the oldest of Rex Breton Kennedy and Edith Oliver (Holbrook) Kennedy's four children: Mary Frances, Anne (1910-ca.1965), Norah (born 1917), and David (1919-ca.1942). In 1912, the family moved to Whittier, California, where Rex became the owner and editor of the Whittier News .

Kennedy met Alfred Young Fisher while she was attending the University of California, Los Angeles. They were married September 5, 1929, and spent three years in France while he completed his doctorate and she studied at the University of Dijon and in Strasbourg. The Fishers returned to California in 1932 and were divorced in 1939.

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