Reminiscences of Dorothy West : oral history, 1978.

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Reminiscences of Dorothy West : oral history, 1978.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122631829

Family background, childhood; Harlem Renaissance; Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten; attempt to make a movie in Soviet Union, 1935; reflections on black society.

Transcript: 75 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Guinier, Genie,

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West, Dorothy, 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...