Louise Meriwether

Fragments of the Ark

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Produktbeschreibung

A novelization of the inspirational life of Civil War hero Robert Smalls of South Carolina

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781611172829
• ISBN-10: 1611172829
• Artikelnr.: 36939098

Autorenporträt

Louise Meriwether is a novelist, essayist, journalist, and social activist with family ties to South Carolina. She earned a B.A. in English from New York University and an M.A. in journalism from the University of California at Los Angeles. In the 1950s, Meriwether worked for Universal Studios as the first African American story analyst in Hollywood history. Her first book, Daddy Was a Number Runner (1970), a fictional account of the economic devastation of Harlem in the Great Depression, was the first novel to emerge from the Watts Writers' Workshop.�Meriwether followed with the publication of three historical biographies for children on Civil War hero Robert Smalls (1971), pioneer heart surgeon Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (1972), and civil rights activist Rosa Parks (1973).� Her most recent novel, Shadow Dancing, was published in 2000. A member of the Harlem Writers Guild, Meriwether has taught creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Houston.