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Fay Folsom Nichols

Fay Folsom Nichols was born in Hebron Indiana on October 14, 1887 to Marvin Folsom and Lorraine Tannehill Folsom. She went to Valparaiso University and taught school. She married Frank E. Nichols on June 23, 1910 and had two children. She became the editor of the Porter County Herald a post she only gave up to start her book "The Kankakee". Fay died August 12, 1947 a few months after the publishing of her book.