A Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin - Biography of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author | Perfect for Book Clubs, Literary Enthusiasts & American Literature Studies
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A Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin - Biography of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author | Perfect for Book Clubs, Literary Enthusiasts & American Literature Studies
A Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin - Biography of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author | Perfect for Book Clubs, Literary Enthusiasts & American Literature Studies
A Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin - Biography of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author | Perfect for Book Clubs, Literary Enthusiasts & American Literature Studies
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Julia Peterkin revolutionized American literature by writing seriously about the lives of plain black farming people. In five bold, lyrical books she pushed the bounds of realism to earn the startled praise of such intellectuals and literary artists as W. E. B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes. A plantation mistress who vowed to "write what is, even if it is unpleasant," she took up writing at age forty, produced two best-selling novels, and won a Pulitzer Prize before mysteriously abandoning writing twelve years later.

Peterkin's fiction chronicles the collapse of plantation agriculture on the Gullah coast of South Carolina. At the same time her writings are a thinly veiled autobiography of a southern white woman struggling to create something new out of the beauty and sorrow around her. Writing to her mentor H. L. Mencken in 1922, Peterkin declared, "These black friends of mine live more in one Saturday night than I do in five years. I envy them, and I guess as I cannot be them, I seek satisfaction in trying to record them."

The first full account of Peterkin's life, A Devil and a Good Woman, Too is an exemplary biography of a brilliant, enigmatic woman who defied convention, lived as she pleased, and wrote what she knew.

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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 10/15/2008
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9780820332505
ISBN10: 082033250X
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About the Author
SUSAN MILLAR WILLIAMS teaches American literature and creative writing at Trident Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina. Her writing has been published in the Nation and the Southern Review.

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