“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life... Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”

About Betty Smith

Author • American

Betty Smith was an American author and playwright, celebrated for her poignant and realistic storytelling. Born Elisabeth Wehner in Brooklyn, New York, her early life in a working-class immigrant family profoundly...