Helen Monnette was born in 1909 in Maryland. In 1933, she came to the Cleveland Bible College (now Malone University), where she went to school for four years. She graduated in 1938, and she then moved to Florida where she did a lot of her writing. She was an activist in her community and even wrote to the President of the United States, and her Florida governor. She had some of her poems published in The Ideals Complete Family Cookbook, An Old Fashioned Christmas, and the magazines The Alabama- Road builder, and The Malone Alumnus. In 1985, Helen Monnette moved back to Alliance Ohio. She died in 1986 at the age of seventy- seven.
From the guide to the Helen Monnette (1933-1985) Papers, 1933-1985, (Malone University, Everett L Cattell Library)
