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Ann Petry

Ann Petry
Ann Petry, American novelist (d. 1997)

Ann Petry was an American writer of novels, short stories, children's books and journalism. Her 1946 debut novel The Street became the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies.

12 October 1908

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