Dorothy West in Chair on Porch, 1980s


Caption: "Dorothy West has pursued a literary career spanning 60 years. When she lived in New York in the 1920s, she became involved with the many writers,...*"


* ... "artists, philosophers and musicians who made up the intellectual and artistic movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Her novel 'The Living Is Easy' was published in 1948 and reissued in 1982."


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Date: 1980s
Location: Oak Bluffs - -

People: West, Dorothy
Keywords: celebrities; authors; blacks; African Americans