Ann Petry

Ann Lane Petry (October 12, 1908, Old Saybrook, Connecticut - April 28, 1997, Old Saybrook) was an African American novelist, journalist and biographer. Her 1946 best selling novel, The Street, was the first novel by an African American writer to sell over one million copies. The story offered the rarely portrayed perspective of a working class African-American woman in the late 1940s, struggling to provide a decent life for herself and her son in Harlem.

Works by Ann Petry

• The Street (1946);
• Country Place (1947);
• The Narrows (1953).
• Miss Muriel and Other Stories (1971).