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Ann Petry

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Gender Female
Death27 years ago
Date of birth October 12,1908
Zodiac sign Libra
Born Old Saybrook
Connecticut
United States
Date of died April 28,1997
DiedOld Saybrook
Connecticut
United States
NationalityAmerican
Children Liz Petry
Job Journalist
Novelist
Books The Street
Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad
The Narrows
Country Place
Miss Muriel and other stories
Tituba of Salem Village
Ann Petry: The Street, The Narrows (LOA #314)
The drugstore cat
Ann Petry's The Street with Sapphire, Sonia Manzano, and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Ann Petry: The Street, the Narrows
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Ann Petry 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.

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