Author ann petry biography
Harlem Renaissance, Novelist, Activist.
Ann Petry
American novelist
Ann Petry (October 12, 1908 – April 28, 1997) was an American writer of novels, short stories, children's books and journalism.
Author ann petry biography
Her 1946 debut novelThe Street became the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies.[2][3]
In 2019, the Library of America published a volume of her work containing The Street as well as her 1953 masterpiece The Narrows and a few shorter pieces of nonfiction.[4]
Early life
Ann, born Anna Houston Lane,[5] was born in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
She was the youngest of three daughters to Peter Clark Lane and Bertha James Lane. Her parents belonged to the black minority, numbering 15 inhabitants of the small town.[6] Her father was a pharmacist and her mother was a shop owner, chiropodist, and hairdresser.
Ann was also the niece of Anna Louise James.[7][8]
Ann and her sister were raised "in the classic New England