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The Street is a novel published in 1946 by African-American writer Ann Petry. Set in World War II era Harlem , Petry's novel is a commentary on the social injustices that confront her character, Lutie Johnson, as a single Black mother during this period.
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.
The Street (novel) T. Tituba of Salem Village This page was last edited on 24 October 2020, at 02:17 (UTC). Text ... Category: Novels by Ann Petry.
The epigraph in The Narrows from Henry V suggests that Shakespeare’s history play is the inspiration for the fictional town name of Monmouth, Connecticut: . I tell you, captain, if you look in the maps of the ’orld, I warrant you sall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike.
The Street (UK TV series), a drama shown on BBC One in 2006, 2007 and 2009; The Street (2000 TV series), an American television drama series; The Street: A Film with the Homeless, a 1997 documentary about the Canadian homeless in Montreal; The Street (1988 TV series), an American police drama; The Street, a German silent drama film
Hulu's "Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer" shares 87-year-old Dr. Ann Burgess' story of working with victims of sexual assault, and how her research caught the attention of the FBI in the '70s ...
James' niece, Ann Lane Petry, was a writer, [6] whose debut novel The Street was the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies. [4]
Tituba of Salem Village is a 1964 children's novel by African-American writer Ann Petry about the 17th-century West Indian slave of the same name who was the first to be accused of practicing witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials. Written for children 10 and up, it portrays Tituba as a black West Indian woman who tells stories about ...