Ann Petry

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Ann Petry has received her greatest critical recognition for her adult novels: The Street (1946), Country Place (1947), and The Narrows (1953). In 1949 she began a distinguished career as a writer of children’s literature with the publication of The Drugstore Cat, to be followed by the now-classic biographical novels Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad (1955) and Tituba of Salem Village (1964). She has also published a devotional work, Legends of the Saints (1970), in addition to various...

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See Also:

• Country Place (African American Literature)
• Country Place (Character Profiles)
• Harriet Tubman (Juvenile Literature)
• In Darkness and Confusion (Short Stories)
• Like a Winding Sheet (Short Stories)
• Narrows, The (African American Literature)
• Narrows, The (American Fiction)
• Narrows, The (Character Profiles)
• Solo on the Drums (Short Stories)
• Street, The (African American Literature)
• Street, The (American Fiction)
• Street, The (Women’s Literature)
• Street, The (Character Profiles)
• Street, The (Identities and Issues)
• Witness, The (Short Stories)
• Witness, The (Identities and Issues)
• African American Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
• Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)