Lula Ulrica Whitaker (1902-1995) was a history, Latin, and chemistry teacher at Girls Preparatory School in Chattanooga, Tennessee for 46 years. Whitaker was also a local historian and artist. In 1934, Whitaker solicited correspondence from the Southern Agrarians as part of the original research for her 1935 University of Chicago masters thesis entitled, Twelve Southerners and Agrarianism, thereby creating a collection of letters from the authors that explains their pro-Southern, Agrarian essays published in the 1930 book I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition. Whitaker asked the authors the following questions.