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Eighty years ago, in the winter and spring of 1944, Brooklyn-born author Betty Smith was entering a new chapter of life. A year earlier, she was an unknown writer, negotiating with her publisher about manuscript edits and the date of publication for her first book, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” …
Betty Smith enchanted a generation of readers with 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' ? even as she groused that she hoped Williamsburg would be flattened thejerseytomatopress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thejerseytomatopress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
No other 20th-century American novel did quite so much to burnish Brooklyn’s reputation. But Smith rarely saw her hometown through rose-colored glasses − and even grew to resent it.
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