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A Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin
Susan Williams
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Description for A Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin
Paperback. An award-winning biography of a remarkably talented, enigmatic southern woman whose fiction about rural African Americans drew on her own emotional traumas and family scandals. Num Pages: 392 pages, 41 b&w photos. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 549.
A Devil and a Good Woman, Too is the award-winning biography of a remarkably talented, enigmatic southern woman whose fiction about rural African Americans drew on her own emotional traumas and family scandals. A white plantation mistress who vowed to ""write what is, even if it is unpleasant,"" Julia Peterkin produced five books that revolutionized American literature, including the Pulitzer Prize - winning novel ""Scarlet Sister Mary"". In the 1920s, Peterkin wrote stark, powerful stories that earned the praise of W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Carl Sandburg, and H. L. Mencken. But for reasons explored in this biography, ... Read more
A Devil and a Good Woman, Too is the award-winning biography of a remarkably talented, enigmatic southern woman whose fiction about rural African Americans drew on her own emotional traumas and family scandals. A white plantation mistress who vowed to ""write what is, even if it is unpleasant,"" Julia Peterkin produced five books that revolutionized American literature, including the Pulitzer Prize - winning novel ""Scarlet Sister Mary"". In the 1920s, Peterkin wrote stark, powerful stories that earned the praise of W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Carl Sandburg, and H. L. Mencken. But for reasons explored in this biography, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820332505
SKU
V9780820332505
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About Susan Williams
Susan Millar Williams teaches American literature and creative writing at Trident Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina. Her writing has been published in the Nation and the Southern Review.
Reviews for A Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin
An exceptional piece of work. - Louis D. Rubin