Allen, Sarah Addison.

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Sarah Allen of Kinston, N.C., is the author of the novel Ginger Hill, published by John F. Blair Publishing House of Winston-Salem. The novel is set in northeastern North Carolina during the Depression.

From the description of Sarah Allen papers, 1965-1983 [manuscript]. (East Carolina University). WorldCat record id: 47900746

Born in Windsor, N.C., Sarah Allen of Kinston, N.C., wrote the novel Ginger Hill which was published by John F. Blair Publishing House of Winston-Salem, N.C. The manuscript, originally titled Rain on the River was begun during the late 1950s and completed in 1973-74. The novel is set in northeastern North Carolina during the depression years of the 1930s. The narrative is told by Ophelia, a fourteen-year old Negro girl, who lives with her mother, Cassie, and three other tenant families on Ginger Hill Plantation, a tobacco farm.
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referencedIn Richard Gaither Walser Papers, 1918-1988 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection
creatorOf Sarah Allen Papers, 1965-1983 East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library
creatorOf Sarah Allen Papers, 1965-1983 East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library
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