Dorothy West
ABOUT DOROTHY WEST
An American novelist and short story writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance, she published such works as The Living Is Easy (1948) and The Richer, The Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences (1995). Her 1995 work, The Wedding, was made into a television miniseries by Oprah Winfrey .
She began writing at the age of seven; by her mid-teens, she had won several literary contests.
She died at the age of ninety-one.
Her father, Isaac Christopher West, was a slave for part of his life.
She tied with Zora Neale Hurston in a 1926 short story contest.
