Julia Peterkin
Julia Peterkin was an American author from South Carolina. In 1929 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Novel/Literature for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary. She wrote several novels about the plantation South, especially the Gullah people of the Lowcountry. She was one of the few white authors who wrote about the African-American experience.
31 October 1880
Born on the same birth date (31 October 1880): Mikhail Tomsky
Born on the same birth day (31 October): Alonzo Babers • David Ogden Stiers • Judith Wilcox, Baroness Wilcox • Louise of Sweden • Lucious Jackson • Marcel Meeuwis • Rob Rackstraw • Stephen Rea • Sydney Park (actress) • Wang Yangming • Willow Smith • Yeongjo of Joseon • Zaha Hadid
Born in the same month (October 1880): Abram Ioffe • Andrei Bely • Bohumír Šmeral • Damon Runyon • Dominikus Böhm • Jesús Reyes Ferreira • Kullervo Manner • Mikhail Tomsky • Sasha Chorny • Una O'Connor (actress)