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Julia Peterkin
Doris Ulmann (left) and Peterkin (right)
Born
(1880-10-31)October 31, 1880
Laurens County, South Carolina, U.S.
Died
August 10, 1961(1961-08-10) (aged 80)
Education
Converse University (BA, MA)
Occupation
Author
Julia Peterkin (October 31, 1880 – August 10, 1961) was an American author from South Carolina. In 1929 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Novel/Literature for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary. She wrote several novels about the plantation South, especially the Gullah people of the Lowcountry. She was one of the few white authors who wrote about the African-American experience.
JuliaPeterkin (October 31, 1880 – August 10, 1961) was an American author from South Carolina. In 1929 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Novel/Literature...
Scarlet Sister Mary is a 1928 novel by JuliaPeterkin. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1929. The book was called obscene and banned at the public...
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scholarly work on the Gullah language), novelists Josephine Pinckney and JuliaPeterkin, poets Hervey Allen, Helen von Kolnitz Hyer, and Beatrice Ravenel, and...
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