Daddy Was a Number Runner (55th Anniversary Edition) - Paperback
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"A most important novel."--The New York Times Book Review
A new edition of Louise Meriwether's classic novel about a young Black girl's coming-of-age in Harlem in the 1930s, featuring new writing celebrating Meriwether's life, work, and activism.
Francie Coffin is the daughter of a number runner, someone who collects bets for the underground lottery that drives Harlem's secret economy. In Louise...
Louise Meriwether (1923-2023) was an American novelist, essayist, journalist, and activist as well as a writer of biographies of historically important African Americans for children. She is best known for her first novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner (1970), which draws on autobiographical elements about growing up in Harlem during the Depression and in the era after the Harlem Renaissance.
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2nd Critical Edition
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