Louise Jenkins (1923-05-08)May 8, 1923 Haverstraw, New York, U.S.
Died
October 10, 2023(2023-10-10) (aged 100) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation
Novelist
biographer
journalist
activist
Nationality
American
Education
Central Commercial High School New York University (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (MA)
Notable works
Daddy Was a Number Runner (1970)
Louise Meriwether (May 8, 1923 – October 10, 2023) was an American novelist, essayist, journalist and activist, as well as a writer of biographies of historically important African Americans for children. She is best known for her first novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner (1970), which draws on autobiographical elements about growing up in Harlem, New York City, during the Depression and in the era after the Harlem Renaissance.
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have included J. E. Franklin, Cheryll Y. Greene, Rashidah Ismaili, LouiseMeriwether, Maya Angelou, Rosamond S. King, Margaret Busby, Gabrielle Civil,...
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Rosa Guy, as well as her high-school English teacher, Mr. Miller. LouiseMeriwether was also named. As an author, Woodson's known for the detailed physical...
Lesbian Fiction category. The Feminist Press also established the LouiseMeriwether First Book Prize, a literary prize for debut women and nonbinary authors...
authors she admires are Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Richard Wright, LouiseMeriwether, Rosa Guy, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Jean Toomer, Ralph Ellison...
activist LouiseMeriwether, who wrote the novel 'Daddy Was a Number Runner,' dies at 100". ABC News. Risen, Clay (13 October 2023). "Louise Glück, 80...
The Collected Poetry of Ray Young Bear (Open Road Integrated Media) LouiseMeriwether, Lifetime Achievement Lyra Monteiro and Nancy Isenberg, Walter & Lillian...
the Broadway musical Ain't Misbehavin' and the film Ghost (1990) LouiseMeriwether, (b 1923) American novelist, essayist, journalist and activist Tito...
Ringgold, Barkley Hendricks, Stevie Wonder and Sun Ra, and the writers LouiseMeriwether and Audre Lorde. Over the course of the month-long event, her first...
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including J. e. Franklin, Cheryll Y. Greene, Rashidah Ismaili, and LouiseMeriwether, Maya Angelou, Rosamond S. King, Margaret Busby, Gabrielle Civil,...
group of U.S. Army and civilian volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark. Clark, along...
2023. Retrieved 18 April 2017. "Awards: PEN/Faulkner; Stella Prize; LouiseMeriwether First Book". Shelf Awareness. 8 March 2017. Archived from the original...
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