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Ann Petry

Ann Lane Petry
BornAnn Lane Petry
(1908-10-12)October 12, 1908
Old Saybrook, CT, US
DiedApril 28, 1997(1997-04-28) (aged 88)
Old Saybrook, CT, US
Pen nameArnold Petri[1]
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
EducationPh.G.
Alma materConnecticut College of Pharmacy
Years active1946–71
Notable worksThe Street (1946)
The Narrows (1953)
SpouseGeorge Petry
ChildrenLiz Petry

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Ann Petry (October 12, 1908 – April 28, 1997) 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.[2][3]

In 2019, the Library of America published a volume of her work containing The Street as well as her 1953 masterpiece The Narrows and a few shorter pieces of nonfiction.[4]

Early life

Ann, born Anna Houston Lane,[5] was born in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. She was the youngest of three daughters to Peter Clark Lane and Bertha James Lane. Her parents belonged to the black minority, numbering 15 inhabitants of the small town.[6] Her father was a pharmacist and her mother was a shop owner, chiropodist, and hairdresser. Ann was also the niece of Anna Louise James.[7][8]

Ann and her sister were raised "in the classic New England tradition: a study in efficiency, thrift, and utility (…) They were filled with ambitions that they might not have entertained had they lived in a city along with thousands of poor blacks stuck in demeaning jobs."[9] In 1925, Ann graduated from high school as the only person of Afro-American descent.[10]

The family had none of the trappings of the middle class until Petry was well into adulthood. Before her mother became a businesswoman, she worked in a factory, and her sisters worked as maids. The Lane girls were raised sheltered from most of the disadvantages that other black people in the United States had to experience due to the color of their skin; however there were a number of incidents of racial discrimination.

As Petry wrote in "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience", published in Negro Digest in 1946, there was an incident where a racist decided that they did not want her on a beach. Her father wrote a letter to The Crisis in 1920 or 1921 complaining about a teacher who refused to teach his daughters and his niece.[11] Another teacher humiliated her by making her read the part of Jupiter, the illiterate ex-slave in the Edgar Allan Poe short story "The Gold-Bug".

Petry had a strong family foundation with well-traveled uncles, who had many stories to tell her when coming home; her father, who overcame racial obstacles, opened a pharmacy in the small town; and her mother and aunts set a strong example: Petry, interviewed by The Washington Post in 1992, says about her tough female family members that "it never occurred to them that there were things they couldn’t do because they were women."[12]

Career

Petry's desire to become a professional writer was raised first in high school when her English teacher read her essay to the class and commented on it with the words: "I honestly believe that you could be a writer if you wanted to."[13] The decision to become a pharmacist was her family's. After graduating in 1929 from Old Saybrook High School,[14] she went to college and graduated with a Ph.G. degree from the University of Connecticut College of Pharmacy in New Haven in 1931 and worked in the family business for several years, while also writing short stories. On February 22, 1938, she married George D. Petry of New Iberia, Louisiana, and moved to New York. She worked as a journalist writing articles for newspapers including The Amsterdam News (between 1938 and 1941) and The People's Voice (1941–44),[15] and published short stories in The Crisis, where her first story appeared in 1943,[6] Phylon, and other outlets.[16] Between 1944 and 1946 she studied creative writing at Columbia University.[15] She also worked at an after-school program at P.S. 10 in Harlem. It was during this period that she experienced and understood what the majority of the black population of the United States had to go through in their everyday life. Traversing the Harlem streets, living for the first time among large numbers of poor black people, seeing neglected children up close—Petry's early years in New York inevitably made impressions on her and led her to put her experiences to paper. Her daughter Liz explained to The Washington Post'' that "her way of dealing with the problem was to write this book [The Street], which maybe was something that people who had grown up in Harlem couldn’t do."[17]

Petry's first and most popular novel, The Street, was published in 1946 and won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship with book sales exceeding one million copies.[3] She was featured in a brief All-American News film segment covering her winning the award.[18]

Back in Old Saybrook in 1947, Petry worked on Country Place (1947), The Narrows (1953), other stories, and books for children, but they never achieved the same success as her first book. She drew on her personal experiences of the hurricane in Old Saybrook in Country Place. Although the novel is set in the immediate aftermath of World War II, Petry identified the 1938 New England hurricane as the source for the storm that is at the center of her narrative.

Petry was a member of the American Negro Theater and appeared in productions including On Striver's Row.[19] She also lectured at University of California, Berkeley, Miami University and Suffolk University, and was Visiting Professor of English at the University of Hawaii.[20]

She died in Old Saybrook at the age of 88 on April 28, 1997. She was outlived by her husband George, who died in 2000, and her only daughter, Liz Petry.

In November, 2018, Tayari Jones called for a revival of Petry's acclaim, writing that Petry "is the writer we have been waiting for, hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time."[21] In her home state of Connecticut, poet and activist, Jose B. Gonzalez has also led a movement to get Petry more recognition.[22][23]

Selected bibliography

  • "Marie of the Cabin Club" (short story), Baltimore Afro-American, 1939. Originally published under the pseudonym Arnold Petri.[24]
  • The Street (novel), Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946; New York: Pyramid, 1961; Boston: Beacon Press, 1985; London: Michael Joseph, 1947; Ace Books, 1958; Virago, 1988.
  • Country Place (novel), Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947; London: Michael Joseph, 1948; Chatham, NJ: Chatham Bookseller, 1971. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2019.
  • The Drugstore Cat (for children; illus. Susanne Suba), New York: Crowell, 1949; Boston: Beacon, 1988.
  • The Narrows (novel), Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2017.
  • Tituba of Salem Village (historical novel for children), 1955, New York: Crowell, 1964; Harper trophy, 1991.
  • Harriet Tubman: Conductor On The Underground Railroad (non-fiction), New York: Crowell, 1955; as The Girl Called Moses: The Story of Harriet Tubman, London: Methuen, 1960.
  • Legends of the Saints (illus. Anne Rockwell), New York: Crowell, 1970.
  • Miss Muriel and Other Stories (story collection), Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2017.
  • In Darkness and Confusion (short story), published in 1947.

References

  1. ^ Reporter, Chronicle. "Little Known Black History Fact: Ann Petry". Archived from the original on December 2, 2020. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  2. ^ "Ann Petry", AALBC.com.
  3. ^ a b McKay, p. 127.
  4. ^ Sehgal, Parul (April 16, 2019). "Two Novels by Ann Petry, a Writer Who Believed in Art That Delivers a Message". The New York Times. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  5. ^ "archives.nypl.org -- Ann Petry papers". archives.nypl.org. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  6. ^ a b Cott, Nancy F., and Kathryn Allamong Jacob, "New Cache of Letters Illuminates Life of African American Novelist Ann Petry" Archived August 15, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, Schlesinger Newsletter, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
  7. ^ Andrews, Gregory E. (July 1, 1994). "NRHP Inventory-Nomination: James Pharmacy". National Park Service. With accompanying 10 photos, exterior and interior, from 1993 (see photo captions last page of text document).
  8. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  9. ^ Holladay, p. 7.
  10. ^ Harris, Trudier, ed. (1988), Afro-American Writers, 1940-1955, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 76, Detroit: Gale Research Co., p. 141, ISBN 0810345544
  11. ^ Petry, Elisabeth, At Home Inside, p. 27.
  12. ^ Holladay, p. 5.
  13. ^ Holladay, p. 6.
  14. ^ "Ann Lane Petry", Black History Now, July 7, 2014.
  15. ^ a b "Ann Petry", Encyclopædia Britannica.
  16. ^ "Petry, Ann (1908–1997)", Ann Petry Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.
  17. ^ Streitfeld, David (February 25, 1992). "PETRY'S BREW: LAUGHTER FURY". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 22, 2017..
  18. ^ "All-American news. [1945-05, no. 4]". Library of Congress.
  19. ^ Atlas, Nava, "Ann Petry", Literary Ladies Guide, April 22, 2015.
  20. ^ Busby, Margaret, "Ann Petry", Daughters of Africa, 1992, p. 229.
  21. ^ Jones, Tayari (February 15, 2018). "In Praise of Ann Petry". The New York Times. No. 15 February 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
  22. ^ "Why you should know about Ann Petry, one of the first major Black woman fiction writers".
  23. ^ "Author Ann Petry gets spotlight at panel discussion in Waterford".
  24. ^ "Ann Petry". FemBio.
Sources
  • Condon, Garret, "Ann Petry", Hartford Courant Northeast, November 8, 1992.
  • Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1988.
  • Hernton, Calvin (1987). The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers. Anchor Press. ISBN 0-385-23921-1.
  • Holladay, Hilary (1996). Ann Petry. Twayne Publishers. ISBN 978-0-8057-7842-7.
  • McKay, Nellie, "Ann Petry's The Street and The Narrows: A Study of the Influence of Class, Race, and Gender on Afro-American Women's Lives", in Maria Diedrich and Dorothea Fischer-Hornung (eds), Women and War, New York: Berg, 1990.
  • Petry, Elisabeth (ed.),Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family’s Letters. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
  • Petry, Elisabeth, At Home Inside: A Daughter's Tribute to Ann Petry. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008. ISBN 978-1604731002
  • "English and the Urban Scene", speech delivered to Hartford Public High School's English Department and NDEA Institute of Trinity College, March 6, 1969.

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