A comprehensive anniversary edition that includes a chronology (once edited by Ann Petry); an introduction that chronicles the evolution of Petry's literary career and criticism, from the 1930s to the present; annotations of Petry's primary and secondary works; and an index that provides resourceful indentations for the unfamiliar and the Petry scholar. The edition compiles invaluable evidence of the growing interest in Ann Petry since her 1993...