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Opinion: Why Louise Jenkins Meriwether, the Black author and activist, should be a household name

Meriwether, who died last week, was a contemporary of Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison. James Baldwin loved her work. She made my writerly dreams come true.

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Opinion: Louise Jenkins Meriwether, Black author and activist, should be a household name

Meriwether, who died last week, was a contemporary of Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison. James Baldwin loved her work. She made my writerly dreams come true.

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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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