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On the heels of the bestseller success of her novel The Wedding, Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, presents a collection of essays and stories that explore both the realism of everyday life, and the fantastical, extraordinary circumstances of one woman's life in a mythic time. Traversing the universal themes and conflicts between poverty and prosperity, men and women, and young and old, and compiling writing that spans almost seventy years, The Richer, The Poorer not only affords an unparalleled window into the African-American middle class, but also delves into the richness of experience of "one of the finest writers produced in this country during the Roaring Twenties"(Book Page).
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Dorothy West founded the Harlem Renaissance literary magazine Challenge in 1934, and New Challenge in 1937, with Richard Wright as her associate editor. She was a welfare investigator and WPA relief worker in Harlem during the Depression. Her first novel, The Living Is Easy, appeared in 1948 and remains in print. Her second novel, The Wedding, was a national bestseller and literary landmark when published in the winter of 1995. A collection of her stories and autobiographical essays, The Richer, The Poorer, appeared during the summer of 1995. She died in August 1998, at the age of 91.
West is the last surviving participant in the Harlem Renaissance, the explosion of black arts and literature centered in Harlem between the two world wars. Her recent novel, The Wedding , which was her first publication in more than 40 years, scored high marks with critics and the reading public alike. Arriving in its wake is a compilation of West's short stories and autobiographical essays. This book may be somewhat a lesser work than The Wedding and her other novels, but it's still remarkable reading. That West was an excellent writer early in her life is evidenced in her first story, written at age 17, "The Typewriter." But two of the best stories included in this collection are "The Roomer" and "The Richer, the Poorer." "The Roomer" features a woman who has to explain to her tight husband an extravagant purchase--a new winter coat. "The Richer, the Poorer" is a delicious parable about two sisters, one who saves for a rainy day, the other who doesn't; but it's the former sister not the latter who has regrets--that she has kept her money but has done no living. The autobiographical essays address issues of her childhood and of the present, from her splendid summers as a girl on Martha's Vineyard (in "Fond Memories of a Black Childhood" ) to a recent frightening flight from Boston to the Vineyard (in "The Flight" ). Brad Hooper
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