Where the Wild Grape Grows : Selected writings, 1930-1950 / Dorothy West ; edited by Verner D. Mitchell and Cynthia Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

West, Dorothy, 1907-1998.

Contributor:

Mitchell, Verner D., 1957- editor.

Davis, Cynthia J., 1964- editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

West, Dorothy, 1907-1998--Correspondence.

West, Dorothy.

West, Dorothy, 1907-1998.

Harlem Renaissance.

African American authors.

African Americans.

African Americans--Correspondence.

Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence.

Authors, American.

African American authors--Correspondence.

Harlem Renaissance--Sources.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Sources.

Autobiographies.

Personal correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xiv, 220 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, genealogical table ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.

Contents:

Preface. Toward a Reappraisal of Dorothy West's Work

Introduction. Dorothy West and Her Circle

Carolina

At the Swan Boats

Blackberrying

Quilting

Prologue to a Life

Hannah Boyle

The Black Dress

My Baby

Mammy

Pluto

The House Across the Way

Mrs. Marlowe

The Stairs

Where the Wild Grape Grows

Winter on Martha's Vineyard

Elephant's Dance a Memoir of Wallace Thurman

The Inroads of Time

Selected Letters.

Notes:

"Designed by Mary Mendell."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copies 1 & 2: dustjackets retained.

Banks Collection copy 1 has [3] typewritten pages laid in.

Banks Collection copy 2 is former library copy with 3 white labels bearing the local call number, the date and stamp "No longer the property of PGCMLS".

ISBN:

1558494715

OCLC:

56912236