Who is the real Wendy Davis?

• Author: Seymour, Sandra M.
• Position: Letters to the Editor - Letter to the editor

In "Wendy Davis and the Battle for Texas" (February issue), Mary Tuma gives an account that differs from Time magazine's, which points out that Davis "blurred" her biography. According to Time, she exaggerated how long she spent in a mobile home and said she did so when she was nineteen, not twenty-one. Time also recounts her second husband's claim that Davis abandoned him and her daughter the day after he paid off her Harvard bills.

The omissions in your story cause me to wonder about the veracity of other features in your magazine.

Sandra M. Seymour

Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

I am eighty-two, a retired economics professor at the University of Texas-Austin. I...