A Vassar graduate and mother of three children, MAY DIKEMAN tells us, “I now belong to an amateur theatrical group, paint portraits and street scenes, ride horses, and read Paul Tillich silently when not reading ‘What Happened to Piggy?' aloud.”

A Vassar graduate and the mother of three children, MAY DIKEMAN made her first appearance in the ATLANTIC in 1961 with her short story ‟ The Tender Mercies.” which won an Atlantic ‟ First ” prize. Her next two stories in our pages, ‟ The Sound of Young Laughter” and ‟ The Woman Across the Street,” were selected for the Martha Foley collecion, THE BEST AMERICAN SHOUT STORIES.