Dorothy West

• Jun-1995
• / General Fiction
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On the heels of the bestseller success of her  novel The Wedding, Dorothy West,  the last surviving member of the Harlem  Renaissance, presents a collection of essays and stories that  explore both the realism ...

• Jun-1995
• / General Fiction
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On the island of Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s  there exists a proud, insular, nearly unassailable  community known as the Oval, made up of the best  and brightest of New York's and Boston's black  bourgeoisie. Dr. Clark Coles and his wife C...

• Jul-1995
• / Literary
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This stunning first novel by the author of The Wedding is one of only a handful of novels published by black women during the 1940s. It tells the story of Cleo Judson -- daughter of southern sharecroppers and wife of "Black Banana King" Bart Judson. ...

• Jan-1996
• / Suspense
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In her final novel, “a beautiful and devastating examination of family, society and race” (The New York Times), Dorothy West offers an intimate glimpse into the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast'...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction
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A literary event―selected and previously uncollected fiction by the woman who was the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance.

When Dorothy West died in 1998, she was the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, a contempo...