- She returned to New Orleans to attend a Catholic high school for girls, and enrolled at Newcomb College, a women's school affiliated with Tulane University. She received a bachelor's degree in English, started writing short stories, and studied for a doctorate at Tulane, until the department head said that women could not be teaching assistants.
- She grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, where she studied ancient Greek and Latin. She spent her weekends searching for rare plants with her grandfather, an amateur botanist.
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