UNSUNG MUSE

Brower talks about her mother, Anne Hus Brower. Her mother was her father's best page-tracker, adviser, editor, critic, fan, and sparring partner in matters of English usage. She bore his four children, ran his household, and brought into his life ideas and values developed through her own rich history contributing to the widening mission that characterizes the global environmental movement of the twentieth century. She started working fulltime for the University of California, Berkeley at age 17. When she finally retired at age 72, she had worked all over campus, mostly as an editor, with long stints in City and Regional Planning, Anthropology, and the Regional Oral History Office. While bringing order and clarity to the writing of professors and graduate students, she brought home what she learned en route.