<>stream Dorothy’s story “The Typewriter” came in second, tied with an entry from Zora Neale Hurston, and the girls traveled to New York for the awards dinner, finding themselves suddenly at the vibrant heart of the Harlem Renaissance. endobj The novel was adapted for television and produced by entertainment mogul Oprah Winfrey as a two-part miniseries in 1998. Beginning in 1938, West worked as a welfare investigator in Harlem for a year and half and in the early 1940s became a regular contributor for New York Daily News. Dorothy West was born in nineteen-oh-seven in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. All Rights Reserved. 14 0 obj As TIME reported that July, West was cheerfully enduring her second go-round as “the much praised new pet of that crow’s chorus, the U.S. literary community.” She lived for three more years, regaling journalists with the stories of her remarkable life and bearing essential “witness to a long-gone world.”. <>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI]/XObject<>>>/Type/Page>> <> You can unsubscribe at any time. 1 0 obj 43 0 obj She was the only child of Rachel Pease Benson and Isaac Christopher West. p�� ����Ңb�%�4��O�����Q���%C��� ;��@�_.�B����C[�0�%���{2�J��,3�GI8[ ���\�ԥS�EjT�����t���7�߶o�rFv��3�э��^�x/!���|�� ��s��5���0|��]�����m%���G5l��ڙQuf�����ǃE+AoL�Z�Q1&�J�+3�%��I\[1\�0s˝��Ew�(�V�'ak���Π�Gw@_ۚ f�ё!9�7��BE����]�Yr*̨[WD�-���O$�M��fhŘ���@��H�+8�L5��1jc��EۈL�$O�9ÆԽŖ&$����f�ui���`�n{���J`��$-�\@o�� �nw�1����U4�-��؆Z�o��qdp�wj�1�x 2018-12-29T07:45-08:00 2018-12-29T07:45-08:00 In 1921, when she was fourteen, her first story was published in the Boston Post, a newspaper for which she continued to write for the rest of her life. endobj Once, when a copy of the NAACP’s magazine The Crisis dropped through the mailbox, her mother was horrified at the thought of her daughter encountering the magazine’s graphic accounts of racial violence, seemingly so far removed from their genteel middle-class life in Boston. In 1929, West traveled with production to London, where the opera ran for three months. West put her writing on hold as she spent the next few years as an actor. She contributed regularly to the local newspaper, but had faded to literary-footnote status until the mid-1990s, when she enjoyed a renaissance of her own—thanks in large part to a vacationing Doubleday editor named Jackie Onassis. 35 0 obj West’s novels, short stories, and periodical publications discussed African American life as well as black political and social issues. Her father was a former slave. Both her parents were born in the southern United States, and moved north. <>stream endobj
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