Ebook {Epub PDF} Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether

Daddy was a Number Runner. Louise Meriwether. Feminist Press at CUNY, - Fiction - pages. 1 Review. This modern classic is "a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards 2/5(1).  · Forty years after I first read Louise Meriwether’s novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner, I still know these opening scenes like the back of my hand. I re-read this book countless times from my elementary school years through high school; it was that good. .  · *Daddy Was A Numbers Runner,* by Louise Meriwether should be treated as an American classic novel. It captures the life of 's Harlem families through the eyes of a yr. old girl. Written in first person, it reflects the life of the author, who grew up in those times. The book was written in , and the author is now 98 years old/5.

Louise Meriwether (born May 8, ) is an American novelist, essayist, journalist and activist, as well as a writer of biographies of historically important African Americans for children. She is best known for her first novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner (), which draws on autobiographical elements about growing up in Harlem during the Depression and in the era after the Harlem Renaissance. Review of Fragments of the Ark, by Louise Meriwether. Library Journal , no. 1 (January, ). A positive review. McKay, Nellie. Afterword to Daddy Was a Number Runner, by Louise Meriwether. In , the Manhattan borough president declared May 8, her birthday, Louise Meriwether Appreciation Day, and the Feminist Press, which published a new edition of "Daddy Was a Number Runner.

Daddy was a Number Runner. Louise Meriwether. Feminist Press at CUNY, - Fiction - pages. 1 Review. This modern classic is "a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards. "Daddy Was a Number Runner is not sugar-coated or show. It is truth lived in the vernacular—a Black girl's humor and empathy as she comes to understand Harlem's dreams and tragedies from inside out. Louise Meriwether's voice is the Black feminist novelist's equivalent of the Blues. *Daddy Was A Numbers Runner,* by Louise Meriwether should be treated as an American classic novel. It captures the life of 's Harlem families through the eyes of a yr. old girl. Written in first person, it reflects the life of the author, who grew up in those times. The book was written in , and the author is now 98 years old.