Petry, Ann
Petry, Ann( 1929– ),born in and still a resident of Old Saybrook, Conn., after graduation from the state university and work in the family drugstore published The Street (1946), a novel in the Richard Wright tradition, about blacks trapped in the ghetto life of Harlem. It was followed by Country Place (1947), a novel depicting class conflict in a setting like her hometown, and The Narrows (1953), which combines previous themes in its concern with black people like herself in a New England community but dramatically presents the romance of a talented black boy and a patrician white girl. Short stories are collected in Miss Muriel (1971), and books for children include The Drugstore Cat (1949), Harriet Tubman (1955), Tituba of Salem Village (1964), and Legends of the Saints (1970), hagiography for youngsters.
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