A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785-1812 was written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in 1991. The book has excerpts from Martha’s dairy along with the author’s own words about what the passages mean. A Midwife’s Tale won The Pulitzer Prize in 1991 in the category of history. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was very serious about women’s history and had a passion for it. She wrote this book to make other people aware of the life of women in early America. In 1785, Martha began on her diary at the age of fifty. She was classified as a midwife; nonetheless, she wore many hats. She was a midwife, a nurse, a mother, a wife, a doctor, and many other labels. She married Ephraim Ballard and had eight children. However, three