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Ann Petry (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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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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