Title: The people from heaven
First published: 1943
Description: An extraordinary novel told partly in verse, The People from Heaven takes place in 1943, the year it was originally published, in Warrensburg, New York, where Eli Bishop, a white shopkeeper, initiates a reign of terror on the populace following his rape of America Smith, a black woman.
Subjects: Race relations, Fiction, Radicals, African American women, New york (state), fiction, Fiction, political, African americans, fiction
Places: New York (State)
LC classification: PS3537.A694 P46 1995