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Louise Meriwether
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Bibliography:
4 Books -
First Book:
Daddy Was Numb Runner (December 1983) -
Last Book:
Daddy Was a Number Runner (December 2002) -
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Books in Order: 4 titles
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Daddy Was a Number Runner
- Dec-2002
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This modern classic is "a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood" in 1930s Harlem -- with a foreword by James Baldwin (Publishers Weekly). Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Cof...
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Shadow Dancing
- Aug-2000
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Acclaimed author of Daddy Was a Numbers Runner and the historical novel Fragments of the Ark, Louise Meriwether now gives us this resonant and revealing contemporary story about the struggle to love in the shadow of our fears. . .
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Fragments of the Ark
- Feb-1994
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Fragments of the Ark follows the exploits of runaway slave Peter Mango, his family, and a band of fellow escaped slaves as they commandeer a Confederate gunboat out of Charleston harbor and deliver it to the Union navy. Mango is made captain of this ...
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Daddy Was Numb Runner
- Dec-1983
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Told from the perspective of a 12-year-old girl, this popular novel documents the disintergration of a black family in Harlem in the 1930s. A compelling, readable, occasionally funny work, it vividly illuminates the life of the ghetto, not just the d...