Her first published story appeared in 1943 in the Crisis, a magazine published monthly by the NAACP. By 1941, she was covering general news stories and editing the women's pages of the People's Voice in Harlem.
She then began writing short stories and worked for the Harlem Amsterdam News. They moved to New York City, where she worked in an after-school program on 116th Street. After Ann graduated from the Connecticut College of Pharmacy, she worked in the family's two drugstores.Īnn Lane’s life was altered dramatically when, in 1938, she married George Petry, a Louisiana-born resident of Harlem. Her father, Peter Clark Lane, was a pharmacist and her mother, Bertha James Lane, ran a business called Beautiful Linens for Beautiful Homes. In its vivid descriptions of street culture and the hard life endured by the main characters, The Street portrayed the day-to-day existence of the residents of Harlem.Īnn Lane was born and raised in Old Saybrook, Conn., where she lived most of her life. Her ground-breaking novel, published in 1946, was also the first book by an African-American woman to sell over 1 million copies.
Ann Lane Petry was a Connecticut writer whose novel The Street was one of the first to address the experiences of black women in terms of race, class and gender.
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