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Dorothy West was born on June 2, 1907, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Isaac and Rachel Benson West. Though she was the couple's only child, West grew up among the numerous relatives from her mother's side of the family.
Jul 6, 1995 · July 6, 1995. As a 7-year-old girl, Dorothy West read a poem celebrating the last leaf on a tree and its proud but solitary fate. Right away, little Dorothy made a plea: Don't let that happen to ...
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Feb 3, 2016 · February 3, 2016 12:10 PM EST. T o say that Dorothy West had a sheltered upbringing for a young African American girl born in 1907 is an understatement. Once, when a copy of the NAACP’s magazine ...
West, who never married, declined a proposal from Countee Cullen, another Harlem Renaissance poet. Dorothy West was born and raised in Boston, where her father, Isaac Christopher West, a former slave, was a fruit merchant known as The Black Banana King.
Dec 16, 2020 · The writer Dorothy West (1907–1988) is best known for her 1948 novel The Living Is Easy about upper class African Americans in Boston, Massachusetts, where she was born and raised.
Apr 26, 2024 · Dorothy West (born June 2, 1907, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 16, 1998, Boston) was an American writer who explored the aspirations and conflicts of middle-class African Americans in many of her works and was one of the last surviving members of the prominent group of black artists, writers, and musicians who flourished in New York City’s Harlem district during the Harlem ...
Following her life from Boston to New York, Moscow, and Martha’s Vineyard, explore the story of Dorothy West, writer, editor, and youngest member of the Harlem Renaissance. Featuring never-before-seen photographs and objects, this exhibition offers a new look at the “best known unknown writer of her time” and the legacy she left behind.
