Willie Snow Ethridge

Willie Snow Ethridge (December 10, 1898 – December 14, 1982), born Willie Annette Snow, was an American columnist, author, and humorist. She wrote seventeen books on biography, travel, and history, primarily biographical memoirs including an Aristocracy of Achievement, As I Live and Breathe (1937), and It's Greek to Me (1948). Her other works about topics such as labor, lynching, and life include the Mingled Yarn (1938) and Strange Fires (1971). In addition, she wrote several essays and columns for The Telegraph, Good Housekeeping, and the New Republic, among other newspapers and magazines. Her first commercially successful book was a memoir titled As I Live and Breathe, published in 1937.

In late 1930s, she moved with her family to Louisville, Kentucky, where they stayed for 28 years. During this time, Snow wrote and published another ten books mainly about her life with her family, describing them as roommates. Her reputation as a humorist and satirist began to grow with the publishing of five books, the first of which was It's Greek to Me, published in 1948.

At the same time, during the 1920 and 1930s, Snow also wrote about race and gender. She joined the anti-lynching movement, mainly with the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. Her work was about lynching and its consequences for African Americans and laborers from all ethnicities. Her book, Mingled Yarn, published in 1938, is a pro-labor novel that describes the life of a laborer in a southern mill town.

After a trip to Russia in 1958, Snow wrote two novels, titled Nila and Russian Duet, both of which featured her travel companion, Nila Magidoff. The books found commercial success.

In 1963, she again moved with her family after Ethridge's retirement from Courier Journal, first to Garden City, New York, and then to Moncure, North Carolina, in 1965.

She was awarded the North Carolina Award for Literature in 1982.

Death Snow died during a visit to her son's, David W. Ethridge, house in Key West, Florida, on December 14, 1982. Nila, Her Story As Told To (1956), Simon & Schuster Summer Thunder (1958), Coward-McCann Russian Duet: The Story of a Journey (1959), Simon & Schuster There's Yeast in the Middle East (1962), The Vanguard Press I Just Happen to Have Some Pictures (1964), The Vanguard Press You Can't Hardly Get There From Here (1965), The Vanguard Press Strange Fires: The True Story of John Wesley's Love Affair in Georgia (1971), The Vanguard Press Side by Each (1973), The Vanguard Press