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4.29. 466,735 ratings27,246 reviews. The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident.
Mar 2, 2024 · March 02, 202410:00 AM. Reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in the 1940s. Photo by Weegee (Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography/Getty Images. This piece originally appeared in the...
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Sep 16, 2014 · Betty Smith. Follow. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: A Novel Paperback – September 16, 2014. by Betty Smith (Author) 713. See all formats and editions. The beloved perennial classic—named as one of the books of the twentieth century by the New York Public Library.
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Feb 27, 2024 · Betty Smith enchanted a generation of readers with ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ − even as she groused that she hoped Williamsburg would be flattened. Published: February 27, 2024 2:40pm EST....
Nov 6, 2018 · Betty Smith has, in the pages of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, captured the joys of humble Williamsburg life―from “junk day” on Saturdays, when the children traded their weekly take for pennies, to the special excitement of holidays, bringing cause for celebration and revelry.
Betty Smith (AKA Sophina Elisabeth Wehner): Born- December 15, 1896; Died- January 17, 1972. Born in Brooklyn, New York to German immigrants, she grew up poor in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These experiences served as the framework to her first novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943).
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