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Streets like the one she lived on were no accident. They were the North's lynch mobs, she thought bitterly; the method the big cities used to keep Negroes in their place.
Ann Petry
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There are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ann Petry
Born:
October 12, 1908
Died:
April 28, 1997
(aged 88)
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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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