Literary Sisters : : Dorothy West and Her Circle, A Biography of the Harlem Renaissance / / Cynthia Davis, Verner D. Mitchell.
Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West led a charmed life in many respects. Born into a distinguished Boston family, she appeared in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, then lived in the Soviet Union with a group that included Langston Hughes, to whom she proposed marriage. She later became friends with...
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