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Frances Moore Lappe

Frances Moore Lappe

writer, activist
Frances Moore Lappe was born in Pendleton, Oregon. A graduate of Earlham College in Indiana, she was a 26-year-old trusting her common sense when she began the research that led to the publication of Diet for a Small Planet (1971), a book which sold over three million copies and changed forever the way people think about food.  [more]