"The dusk crept out across the fields wiping out the day's light."
Black April (1927)
American author Julia Peterkin died #OTD in 1961.
In 1929 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Novel/Literature for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary. She wrote several novels about the plantation South, especially the Gullah people of the Lowcountry. She was one of the few white authors who wrote about the African-American experience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Peterkin
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