Janet Kalven (May 21, 1913 — April 24, 2014) was a Catholic educator and writer associated with the Grail, a women's religious movement founded in 1921.
After finishing high school as valedictorian of her class,[3] she attended the University of Chicago, where writer Jane Kesner was her friend and assigned "big sister".
[6] Kalven joined the Grail Movement, a Catholic women's group, in 1940, and in 1944 was one of the founders of its main educational center, a farm called Grailville, in Loveland, Ohio.
[7][8] She would eventually write a memoir and history of the movement in the United States, Women Breaking Boundaries: A Grail Journey, 1940-1995 (SUNY Press 1999).
[15] Late in life, Kalven moved from Grailville to buy a converted school building in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she lived.