Ann Petry: The Street, The Narrows. In one volume, two landmark novels about the terrible power of race in America from one of the foremost African American

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2012 — Ann Arbor · Weather · Traffic Edmonton Oilers d-man Jeff Petry had to choose between baseball, hockey Being the son of former Tiger pitcher Dan Petry, it was only natural that Jeff played baseball as well. During his Ann Petry (October 12, 1908 – April 28, 1997) was an American writer of novels, short stories, children's books and journalism. Her 1946 debut novel The Street became the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies. Ann Petry, née Lane, (born October 12, 1908, Old Saybrook, Conn., U.S.—died April 28, 1997, Old Saybrook), African-American novelist, journalist, and biographer whose works offered a unique perspective on black life in small-town New England.

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Her ground-breaking novel, published in 1946, was also the first book by an African-American woman to sell over 1 million copies. Petry is the writer we have been waiting for, hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and unputdownable prose.” — Tayari Jones, The New York Times (2018) Ann Lane Petry (1908-1997) is a novelist, short story writer, writer of books for young people and one of America's most distinguished authors. Ann began by studying pharmacology, and in 1934, received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Connecticut College of Pharmacy. African American writer Ann Lane Petry skillfully illuminated the range of black and white American experience in her novels, short stories, and other works. The Street, her most famous novel, was a hard-hitting social commentary on the despair of black urban life in the 1940s. Ann Petry (1908 – 1997) is best known for being the first African-American woman to produce a book whose sales would top a million copies.

Ann Petry: The Street, The Narrows.

Petry is the writer we have been waiting for, hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and unputdownable prose.” — Tayari Jones, The New York Times (2018)

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, 1949. The Street, Ann Petry, 1946.

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Contributing Editor: Hilary Holladay. Classroom Issues and Strategies. So much is going on in Petry's novels and short stories that you “Ann Petry's first novel, The Street, was a literary event in 1946, praised and translated around the world – the first book by a black woman to sell more than a "Raceless" Writing and Difference: Ann Petry's Country Place and the African- American Literary Canon. Emily Bernard.
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She 28 Aug 2018 Introduction. Ann Lane Petry (b. 1908–d. 1997) was a neighborhood novelist and an adopted daughter of Harlem who sold over a million Buy The Street (Virago Modern Classics) 01 by Petry, Ann (ISBN: 9780349012933) from Amazon's Book Store.