Grace Lumpkin | |
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Born | March 3, 1891 Milledgeville, Georgia, U.S. |
Died | March 23, 1980 Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. | (aged 89)
Occupation | Writer, novelist |
Language | English |
Period | 1930s, 1960s |
Genre | Proletarian literature, Feminist literature |
Subject | American social injustices |
Notable works | To Make My Bread (1932) |
Notable awards | Gorky Prize 1933 |
Spouse | Michael Intrator (div.) |
Relatives | Katharine DuPre Lumpkin (sister) |
Grace Lumpkin (March 3, 1891 – March 23, 1980)[1] was an American writer of proletarian literature who focused most of her works on the Depression era and the rise and fall of communism in the United States. The most important of four books was her first, To Make My Bread (1932), which won the Gorky Prize in 1933.[2][3]