Dorothy West
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Dorothy West (June 2, 1907 – August 16, 1998), an American novelist and short-story writer during the Harlem Renaissance.
She is best known for her book The Living Is Easy, as well as many other short stories and essays about an upper-class black family.
Early years
Dorothy West was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 2, 1907, the only child of Virginian Isaac Christopher West, who was enslaved at birth and became a successful businessman, and Rachel Pease Benson of Camden, South Carolina, one of 22 children. Helene Johnson was her cousin. "We were taught early in life to take the white man in stride or drown in their own despair," she wrote later. She chronicles how her mother accompanied her and her many cousins, all with different skin tones, into the unhospitable world.
West is said to have written her first story at the age of seven. When she was 14 years old, she began writing stories as a result of an advertisement for a writing competition she won in her aunt's copy of the NAACP's magazine Crisis, which her mother believed contained news she wanted to keep her daughter safe. She has received numerous regional writing competitions. West attended Girls' Latin academy, now called Boston Latin Academy, in Boston, Massachusetts, graduating at 16 and transferring to Boston University and the Columbia University School of Journalism.
With her short story "The Typewriter," she tied for second place in a writing competition sponsored by Opportunity, a National Urban League journal published by the National Urban League in 1926. Zora Neale Hurston, a futurist, was the person identified by West. "The Typewriter" appeared in Dodd Mead's annual anthology "The Best Short Stories of 1926," as well as artwork by Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, and Robert Sherwood.
Some of West's other early writings were published in the Saturday Evening Quill, a short-lived annual literary journal of the same name, in which West was a founding member.