At Home Inside: A Daughter's Tribute to Ann Petry
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Rating | : | 4.72 (561 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1604731001 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2017-04-23 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Elisabeth Petry is a freelance writer with a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her work has appeared in Northeast (the magazine of the Hartford Courant) and Work-Boat magazine. She lives in Middletown, Connecticut
Talking about her life publicly, Ann Petry acknowledged six different birth dates. Elisabeth Petry is a freelance writer with a juris doctor from the University of Pennsylvania. Ann Petry (1908-1997) was a prominent writer during a period in which few black writers were published with regularity in America. She lives in Middletown, Connecticut, and is the editor of Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family's Letters (University Press of Mississippi).. Ann Petry applied her formidable skills to stories she told
From the Inside Flap A remembrance of a reticent writer who attained substantial literary success while raising a family
Stephania D. Byrd said Ann Petry according to her daughter. Ann Petry was a private person, some would say reclusive. This memoir opens the reader's mind to the inner workings of this great American novelist. One is privy to the author's journals and correspondence. Petry's life in New England throws light on her fierce determination in finding justice and confronting injustice, whether it occurs in he. Lee Family said Much more about Ann as an author than Elisabeth's first. Much more about Ann as an author than Elisabeth's first book, which focused on the family history. Uses not just person stories, but also published essays and extensive journal writings by Ann Petry. Really well done.