Ebook {Epub PDF} Daddy Was A Number Runner by Louise Meriwether

Forty years after I first read Louise Meriwether’s novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner, I still know these opening scenes like the back of my hand. I re-read this book countless times from my elementary school years through high school; it was that good. Meriwether’s writing is beautiful, layered, and gutting. Louise Meriwether is an American novelist, essayist, journalist, and activist. In , she published her first and critically acclaimed book, Daddy Was a Number Runner (with an introduction by James Baldwin), using autobiographical elements about growing up in Harlem during the Depression and in the era after the Harlem Renaissance/5(). "Daddy Was a Number Runner is not sugar-coated or show. It is truth lived in the vernacular—a Black girl's humor and empathy as she comes to understand Harlem's dreams and tragedies from inside out. Louise Meriwether's voice is the Black feminist novelist's equivalent of the www.doorway.rubility: In stock.

Daddy Was a Number Runner A Novel. Louise Meriwether. • 3 Ratings; of untold dangers for her and her poor, working class family. The beloved "daddy" of the title indeed becomes a number runner when he is unable to find legal work, and while one of Francie's brothers dreams of becoming a chemist, the other is already in a gang. Daddy Was a Number Runner, is a fictional account of the historical and sociological devastation of the economic Depression on Harlem residents. Meriwether followed with the publication of three historical biographies for children on civil war hero Robert Smalls (), pioneer heart surgeon, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams () and civil rights. Daddy was a number runner by Louise Meriwether, , Prentice-Hall edition, in English.

Daddy was a Number Runner. Louise Meriwether. Feminist Press at CUNY, - Fiction - pages. 1 Review. This modern classic is "a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards. “Daddy Was a Number Runner,” Meriwether’s debut novel, was published in But unlike some of her contemporaries, Meriwether never got the recognition she deserved, her close friends and. Forty years after I first read Louise Meriwether’s novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner, I still know these opening scenes like the back of my hand. I re-read this book countless times from my elementary school years through high school; it was that good. Meriwether’s writing is beautiful, layered, and gutting.