Ann Petry

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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1969
  • Latest Book:
    July 2021
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Books in Order: 7 titles

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  • Checkup

    “Petry is the writer we have been waiting for, hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment.” -(Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage)A rare, previously unpublished short story by Ann Petry (1908-199...

  • Country Place

    “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. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and u...

  • Ann Petry: The Street, The Narrows

    In one volume, two landmark novels about the terrible power of race in America from one of the foremost African American writers of the past century.Ann Petry is increasingly recognized as one of the essential American novelists of the twentieth cent...

  • Tituba of Salem Village

    A West Indies slave becomes entangled in the infamous witch trials of 17th-century Salem, Massachusetts In 1688, Tituba and her husband, John, are sold to a Boston minister and sent to the strange world of Salem, Massachusetts. Rumors about witch...

  • Miss Muriel and Other Stories

    “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. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and u...

  • The Narrows

    “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. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and u...

  • Street

    WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES “How can a novel’s social criticism be so unflinching and clear, yet its plot moves like a house on fire? I am tempted to describe Petry as a magician for the many ways ...



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Ann Petry has published 7 books.

Ann Petry does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Checkup, was published in July 2021.

The first book by Ann Petry, Street, was published in June 1969.

No. Ann Petry does not write books in series.
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