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Dorothy West
Dorothy West, an author and journalist, is best known for her work during the Harlem Renaissance. She had once described herself as "the best-known unknown writer of the time," Waiting almost fifty years between her first and second novel, her legacy is her stories that exposed the divisions of racism and classism within African-American society, showing how they undermined relationships and progress.
The child of Rachel Pease Benson and Isaac Christopher West, Dorothy West was born on June 2, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Her father, Isaac West, was a former slave from Virginia.
Dorothy west biography summary
Dorothy's father received his freedom at the age of seven and by ten had saved enough money in a cigar box to start his own business. By the time Dorothy was born they were the wealthiest black family in Boston. Isaac West owned a wholesale fruit company and was known as the "Black Banana King" of Boston.
Her formal education began at age two under the tutelage of Bessie Trotter,