(AURN News) — On Oct. 12, 1908, pioneering novelist and journalist Ann Petry was born in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Before becoming a literary sensation, Petry trained as a pharmacist and worked as a journalist in Harlem, where she witnessed the racism, poverty, and housing discrimination that shaped her writing. In 1946, she published her groundbreaking […]
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