Traversing the streets of Harlem, living for the first time among large numbers of poor black people, seeing neglected children up close – Petry's early years in New York inevitably made impressions on her. It was during this period of her life that she had realized and personally experienced what the majority of the black population of the United States had to go through in their everyday life. She not only wrote articles for newspapers such as The Amsterdam News, or The People's Voice, and published short stories in The Crisis, but also worked at an after-school program at P.S. Petry of New Iberia, Louisiana, which brought Petry to New York. On February 22, 1938, she married George D.
She also began to write short stories while she was working at the pharmacy. degree from Connecticut College of Pharmacy in New Haven in 1931 and worked in the family business for several years. She turned up in college and graduated with a Ph.G. The wish to become a professional writer was raised in Ann for the first time in high school when her English teacher read her essay to the class commenting on it with the words: “I honestly believe that you could be a writer if you wanted to.” The decision to become a pharmacist was her family’s. Ann Petry (Octo– April 28, 1997) was an American author who became the first black woman writer with book sales topping a million copies for her novel The Street.
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