Yesterday we lost great novelist Louise Meriwether at her great age of 100. She was born on May 8, 1923 in Haverstraw, New York. She passed away in Harlem where she had lived most of her life, with influence from the Harlem Renaissance in her youth and membership in the famed Harlem Writers Guild.
Ms. Meriwether wrote DADDY WAS A NUMBER RUNNER (1970) and SHADOW DANCING (2000), won the American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2016, and was great friends with Maya Angelou.
Louise Meriwether (May 8, 1923 – October 10, 2023) was an American novelist, essayist, journalist and activist, as well as a writer of biographies of historically important African Americans for children. She is best known for her first novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner (1970), which draws on autobiographical elements about growing up in Harlem, New York City, during the Depression and in the era after the Harlem Renaissance.
Ms. Meriwether wrote DADDY WAS A NUMBER RUNNER (1970) and SHADOW DANCING (2000), won the American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2016, and was great friends with Maya Angelou.
Louise Meriwether (May 8, 1923 – October 10, 2023) was an American novelist, essayist, journalist and activist, as well as a writer of biographies of historically important African Americans for children. She is best known for her first novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner (1970), which draws on autobiographical elements about growing up in Harlem, New York City, during the Depression and in the era after the Harlem Renaissance.
More information on this phenomenal lady:
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