$5.00 Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ TONI MORRISON, New York, N.Y., February 13, 1974 Toni Morrison (b. 1931) creates richly textured prose that mines her experience as an African American woman in a predominantly white society. For her entire body of work-from her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), through Jazz (1992)-she was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature. Ā© Jill Krementz POMEGRANATE
$5.00 Vintage Postcard Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ DOROTHY WEST, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Mass., April 28, 1995 Dorothy West (b. 1907) moved from Boston to New York as a young woman and became an integral part of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. She founded two magazines, Challenge and New Challenge, as outlets for African American writers. At age eighty-seven, she published the acclaimed novel The Wedding (1994).
