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On Growing Up Tough: An Irreverent Memoir

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The #1 New York Times–bestselling author shares her rough journey to adulthood in a book that "should be read by every American" (Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette).

Born in Manchester, England, in 1900, growing up wasn't easy for Janet Taylor Caldwell. Her Scottish parents warned her that if she ever misbehaved at school, she'd be "thoroughly thrashed." Weekends at home were filled with church and chores.



When her family immigrated to America in 1907, life only got tougher. Her father died soo...