Louise Meriwether

Fiction Writer

New York, NY

New York US

Author's Bio

Louise Meriwether was born in Haverstraw, New York, in 1923 and grew up in Harlem during the Great Depression. A novelist, essayist, journalist, and activist, she authored biographies of historically important African Americans for children and is best known for her first novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner (Prentice Hall, 1970).

Meriwether died at the age of 100 on October 10, 2023.

Publications & Prizes

Books:

Shadow Dancing (Ballantine Books, 2000)

Fragments of the Ark (Pocket Books, 1994)

Daddy Was a Number Runner (Feminist Press at CUNY, 1984)

Journals:

Black Scholar

Essence

Harbor Review

Icarus Review

More Information

Identifies as:

African American

Born in:

Haverstraw, NY

New York

Raised in:

New York, NY

New York

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Last update: Dec 08, 2023