Background
Wilmar H. Shiras was born on September 23, 1908, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States into a family of a machinist.
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
The East campus of Boston University where Wilmar H. Shiras studied till 1926.
3500 Mountain Blvd, Oakland, CA 94619, United States
Holy Names University where Wilmar H. Shiras received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1955.
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
The University of California, Berkeley where Wilmar H. Shiras obtained a Master of Arts degree in 1956.
Wilmar H. Shiras was born on September 23, 1908, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States into a family of a machinist.
Wilmar H. Shiras studied at Boston University for a while but dropped it in 1926 to create a family.
Then, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Holy Names College (currently Holy Names University) in Oakland in 1955. It was followed a year later by a Master of Arts in history at the University of California, Berkeley.
Wilmar H. Shiras was inspired by her family to make her first steps in writing. Her debut and the most significant story about the self-determination of children with outstanding ability, ‘In Hiding’, was published in 1948 in Astounding Science Fiction magazine. It was followed by a series of two sequels in the magazine during the years 1948 to 1950 and later united in a trilogy ‘Children of the Atom’ afterward.
Shiras also served as a translator of Catholic theology and philosophy in a New York publishing house and as a reviewer in New Catholic World magazine and other periodicals.
Quotations: "Whatever else I wrote came back with a note asking for another ‘In Hiding.’"
Wilmar H. Shiras married a chemical engineer Russell Shiras in 1926. The family produced five children, two boys, and three girls.