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Ann Petry (1908-1997) achieved prominence during a period in which few black women were published with regularity in America. Her novels Country Place (1947) and The Narrows (1988), along with various short stories and nonfiction, poignantly described the struggles and triumphs of middle-class blacks living in primarily white communities. Petry's ancestors, the James family, served as in-spiration for much of her fiction. This collection of more than four hundred family letters, edited by the da
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- Author
- Elisabeth Petry (Ed.)
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781578067855
- Category
- relationships
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Memoir, Literary Collections
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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