Louise Meriwether Dies at 100; in 1970, a New, Black Literary Voice

Louise Meriwether in 1998. In “Daddy Was a Number Runner,” she drew on her own childhood in portraying a Depression-era Harlem family through the eyes of a 12-year-old girl. Writing of life in Harlem, she emerged at the same time as Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou but never achieved their fame,…

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