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Louise Meriwether, novelist, journalist, and activist

Louise Meriwether was a novelist, essayist, journalist and activist, as well as a writer of biographies for African American children.

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Louise Meriwether, novelist who conjured 1930s Harlem, dies at 100

Louise Meriwether, novelist who conjured 1930s Harlem, dies at 100
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Louise Meriwether Dies at 100; in 1970, a New, Black Literary Voice

Writing of life in Harlem, she emerged at the same time as Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou but never achieved their fame, though James Baldwin was an admirer.

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Louise Meriwether, novelist who conjured 1930s Harlem, dies at 100

Her debut novel, "Daddy Was a Number Runner," was a searing examination of Black life in Depression-era Harlem.

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Louise Meriwether, novelist who conjured 1930s Harlem, dies at 100

Her debut novel, "Daddy Was a Number Runner," was a searing examination of Black life in Depression-era Harlem.

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