107th birthday of Ann Petry

(Born 12 October 1908, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, US)

Pharmacist, award-wining and influential novelist and journalist – publications include the classic, The Street (1946), Country Place (1947), The Narrows (1953), Tituba of Salem Village (1955, novel for children), Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad (1960, non-fiction)

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