Ann Petry
Birth date: October 12, 1908
Died: April 28, 1997
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The Horn Book called this classic biography of Harriet Tubman an "unusually well-written and moving life of the 'Moses of her people.'" An accessible portrait of the woman who guided more than 300 slaves to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Undergro...
Raw, riveting, and sadly still reflective of our own times, this novel describes life on a street in Harlem in 1945. I found the pacing a bit slow and some text a bit repetitious, but maybe that was needed to drive home the point that poverty and lack of opportunity are a crucible melting the hardie...
Ann Petry's The Street bears considerable resemblance to Wright's Native Son or Ellison's Invisible Man. All three tell a tale of a young black person and their struggle to achieve more. All three were written in the same era. All three are heartbreaking and haunting. I've loved all three, but each ...
Another one I read during graduate school. I read it twice back then, once for a class, and then around the date I am noting now for a paper I had to write on it. It was kind of forced reading by then, which probably puts a bit of bias into my impression of it. I made a some good notes on my journal...
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