Title: Scarlet Sister Mary
First published: 1928
Description: Pulitzer Prize; likened to Nathaniel Hawthorne'  "Scarlet Letter".  From Goodreads - Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the African American experience. Rejecting the prevailing sentimental stereotypes of her times, she portrayed her black characters with sympathy and understanding, endowing them with the full dimensions of human consciousness. In these novels and stories, she tapped the richness of rural southern black culture and oral traditions to capture the conflicting realities in an African American community and to reveal a grace and courage worthy of black pride.
Subjects: Plantation workers, Pulitzer Prize Winner, African American women, Fiction, award:pulitzer_prize=fiction, award:pulitzer_prize=1929
Places: South Carolina
Time periods: 1920's