- The central character of her book, "The Nun's Story", was based on Hulme's personal friend and business partner Marie Louise Habets, a former Belgian nun.
- Was deputy director of Wildflecken, a refugee center in Bavaria, from 1945 to 1950, helping to relocate and reunite thousands of families, mostly of Polish origin.
- Hulme was an expatriate American writer in Paris before World War II. During the war she worked as a welder in a California shipyard. She helped relocate hundreds of thousands of displaced persons as an official of a United Nations relief organization in postwar Europe. She wrote nine books between 1928 and 1974.
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