Literary Sisters: Dorothy West and Her Circle: A Biography of the Harlem Renaissance

by Verner D. Mitchell and Cynthia Davis

Book Overview

Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West led a charmed life in many respects. Born into a distinguished Boston family, she appeared in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, then lived in the Soviet Union with a group that included Langston Hughes, to whom she proposed marriage. She later became friends with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who encouraged her to finish her second novel, The Wedding , which became the octogenarian author's first bestseller. Literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813551455
• ISBN13: 9780813551456
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary