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Idella Parker was born in 1914 in the small community of Reddick, Florida. She may be best known as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' maid, a job she held for ten years. Almost thirty years after Rawlings' death, Parker, with Mary Keating, wrote her first book, Idella: Marjorie Rawlings' "Perfect Maid". Her second book, written with Bud and Liz Crussell, Idella Parker: From Reddick to Cross Creek was published in 1999.

Resources in This Category

• St. Petersburg Times: Former Maid for Author has her own Stories to Tell

  http://www.sptimes.com/News/021801/Hernando/Former_maid_for_autho.shtml
  Ryan Davis' article about Parker's appearance at Hernando Community College for Black History Month.

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