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): Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta • Alphonso Ford • Aristotelis Pavlidis • Blue Edwards • Buddy Lazier • Charles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham • David Dellucci • Denis Irwin • Edward, King of Portugal • Henriette of Cleves • JID • Jane Pauley • Joe West (umpire) • John Keats • Ken Wahl • Michalis Chrisochoidis • Paul Abrahams • Paul du Toit • Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler • Ruud Hesp
Born in the same month (October 1880): Andrei Bely • Billy Wedlock • Bohumír Šmeral • Charlie Faust • Damon Runyon • Dominikus Böhm • Jesús Reyes Ferreira • Kullervo Manner • Louis Hémon • Mikhail Tomsky • Sasha Chorny • Una O'Connor (actress) • Wilhelm Anderson • Ze'ev Jabotinsky