Woman of the week:
Carole Lombard
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Ursula von der Leyen
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Woman of the week:
Ann Petry
born Oktober 12, 1908 in Old Saybrook, CT
died April 28, 1997 in Old Saybrook, CT
American writer
10. day of death on April 28, 2007
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. Published in 1946, the novel sold 1.5 million copies and brought Petry to national attention. The impact of Petry’s writing continues to be appreciated: literary critics praise her as the most successful follower of the 1940s “Richard Wright school” of urban protest writing; and black feminists cite The Street as the first African-American novel in …
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