My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl’s Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize is a memoir by Williams, detailing various aspects of her life. According to the author, she grew up as an introspective young girl and then transformed into the hippy culture once she entered college (Williams 13). It is during this time that she encountered the growing political movement that was opposed to war. She details in her book that here journey to activism was spurred by a pamphlet she received from a stranger that compared the events happening in Salvador to those in Vietnam. She then became an activist focusing on the Central American region, fighting for a number of causes that would lead to peace. These efforts led her to winning the 1997 Nobel Prize.
