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Photograph of Dorothy West appearing on the rear dust jacket of The Living Is Easy (1948).
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Attributions
Front cover of Challenge: A Literary Quarterly (1936), founded and edited by Dorothy West. Source: Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Public domain.
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June 2, 1907, Boston, Massachusetts
Death
August 16, 1998 (age 91 years), Boston, Massachusetts
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novelist, short story writer, journalist
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Member of the 1932 group of Americans recruited for the Soviet-backed film Black and White
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The Wedding (1995)
The Living Is Easy (1948)
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*some sources say April 6, 1845
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