Where the Wild Grape Grows 2/e

Dorothy West was born in Boston in 1907 and died on Martha's Vineyard in 1998.? Cynthia Davis is professor of English at San Jacinto College. Together, she and Dr. Mitchell have published seven books, primarily on women writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Their most recent volume is In Flaming Letters: Lucia Pitts, Poet of the Six Triple Eight.? Verner D. Mitchell is professor of English at the University of Memphis and editor of This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance.?

Acknowledgments Preface. Toward a Reappraisal of Dorothy West's Work Introduction to Where the Wild Grape Grows: Second Edition Introduction. Dorothy West and Her Circle Carolina At the Swan Boats Blackberrying Quilting Prologue to a Life Hannah Byde The Black Dress My Baby Mammy Pluto The House Across the Way Mrs. Marlowe The Stairs Where the Wild Grape Grows Winter on Martha's Vineyard Elephant's Dance: A Memoir of Wallace Thurman The Inroads of Time Selected Letters Cooks Room in Red Square Russian Correspondence: A Fragment Appendix I. New York Daily News Stories Appendix II. Family Trees

"This collection of West's work will certainly help readers see that she did not simply 'fall silent' in the 1940s only to return to writing to complete The Wedding in the 1980s. This book enables us to see her as a more thoroughly accomplished writer. It is an important work that will lead to a serious revision of West's place in the canon of African American writers." -Joseph T. Skerrett, author of Literature, Race, and Ethnicity: Contesting American Identities "What a great idea to gather in one volume the many previously published and unpublished writings of Dorothy West! . . . This edition throws special light on West's talent and milieu, conveying a complex sense of her as a person in relationship to her family life and commitments, her artistic peers, and her intimate relationships. The editors' introduction and the biographical essay set the right tone for the project, appropriate for both the academic and the general reader." -Amritjit Singh, coeditor of The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader