"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
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Ann Lane Petry October 12, 1908 to April 28, 1997 Born & Died in Old Saybrook, Connecticut Pharmacist, journalist, and novelist who was the first African American to sell more than one million copies of a book. Her best known work is her first novel, The Street.
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Bibliography Adult Fiction The Street - 1946 Country Place - 1947 The Narrows - 1953 Miss Muriel and Other Stories - 1971
Children's Books Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad - 1955 Tituba of Salem Village - 1964
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"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
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