West, Dorothy, 1907?-1998
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West, Dorothy, 1907?-1998
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West, Dorothy, 1907?-1998
West, Dorothy
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West, Dorothy, 1909-
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West, Dorothy, 1909-1998
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Christopher, Mary, 1909-1998
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Christopher, Mary, 1909-1998
Christopher, Mary 1907-1998
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Christopher, Mary 1907-1998
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West, a writer, was born in Boston. Her father had been a slave as a child and became a successful businessman. West began writing at 7 and first won a prize for a story at the age of 20. She moved to New York and became part of the Harlem Renaissance, publishing stories in N.Y. magazines and the Daily News and in the 1930s, editing Challenge and New Challenge, black literary quarterlies. She visited the U.S.S.R. with a group of black writers in 1933. Her novel, The Living is Easy, was published in 1948 and reprinted by The Feminist Press in 1982. Since about 1950 she has lived on Martha's Vineyard, writing a weekly column for the Vineyard Gazette as well as novels and stories. She was interviewed for the Schlesinger Library's Black Women Oral History Project.
African American author and editor; d. 1991; sources vary on birthdate.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/79153789
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82020079
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n82020079
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q371930
http://cbw.iath.virginia.edu/women_display.php?id=21095
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American literature
American literature
American literature
African American authors
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African Americans
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African American women authors
Harlem Renaissance
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Martha's Vineyard (Mass.)
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New York (N.Y.)
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