The Darkest Child

The Darkest Child is the first novel by writer Delores Phillips, published in 2004. The book is set in Georgia in the late 1950s, when Jim Crow laws enforced segregation in the American South,[1][2] and is written from the perspective of a black woman.[3] The main character is Rozelle Quinn, a mother of ten children who works as a domestic servant for a family she does not like.[3][1]

In 2005, Phillips was awarded the First Novelist Award for The Darkest Child.[4] She was a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist in 2005,[5] and won the Black Caucus of the ALA Award.[6]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Celebrating The Darkest Child". Soho Press. 2 February 2021.
  3. ^ a b Philo, Kaila (2017). "CRITICAL READINGS: Agency, Activism, and the Black Domestic Worker in Kathryn Stockett's The Help and Delores Phillips' The Darkest Child". Critical Insights: Civil Rights Literature, Past & Present. pp. 253–269. Retrieved 2024-01-07 – via EBSCOHost.
  4. ^ "ALA | McKinney-Whetstone, French win 2005 BCALA Literary Awards". www.ala.org. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  5. ^ "Legacy Awards". Hurston/Wright Foundation. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  6. ^ "Stumbling Blocks and Other Unfinished Work". Georgia Press. Retrieved 2023-12-07.