Married at Fourteen: A True Story

Lucille Lang Day got married at age 14, gave birth to her first child at 15, divorced her husband at 16, married him again at 17, and left him at 18 to go back to school. Today she is an award-winning poet and holds an M.A. in English and M.F.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University, an M.A. in zoology and a Ph.D. in science/mathematics education from the University of California at Berkeley.

Her memoir, Married at Fourteen, which received a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction, recaptures the wild-ride of her years as a teen mother and juvenile delinquent, and shows how she gradually matured. It also includes thought-provoking tales from her adult life.