The Living Is Easy

The Living Is Easy - Paperback

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The Living Is Easy - Paperback

The Living Is Easy - Paperback

by Dorothy West
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Book Overview

by Dorothy West (Author), Morgan Jerkins (Foreword by), Adelaide M. Cromwell (Afterword by)

An insightful, witty novel set in early twentieth-century black Boston by the Harlem Renaissance's youngest member--reissued for a new generation of readers.

Author Biography

Dorothy West (1907-1998) shared the coveted Opportunity short-story prize with Zora Neale Hurston in 1927 and later moved to New York, where she became the youngest of the writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance. West founded and edited the influential African American literary magazine the Challenge and New Challenge. Also the author of The Wedding and The Richer, The Poorer, she lived on Martha's Vineyard until her death.

Number of Pages: 368
Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: November 10, 2020
ISBN9781936932979
Author Dorothy West
PublisherFeminist Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages368
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

Related Subjects

African American & Black Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Women

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About Dorothy West

Dorothy West founded the Harlem Renaissance literary magazine Challenge in 1934, and New Challenge in 1937, with Richard Wright as her associate editor. She was a welfare investigator and WPA relief worker in Harlem during the Depression. Her first novel, The Living Is Easy, appeared in 1948 and remains in print. Her second novel, The Wedding, was a national bestseller and literary landmark when published in the winter of 1995. A collection of her stories and autobiographical essays, The Richer, The Poorer, appeared during the summer of 1995. She died in August 1998, at the age of 91.

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