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Informationen zum Autor Ruby Berkley Goodwin was born and raised in DuQuoin, IL. She moved with her family to California where she became a poet, a publicist, journalist, and a screenwriter. A confidant of actress Hattie McDaniel, Goodwin acted in several TV series, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents . Klappentext "This is a record, in retrospect, of course, of what life was like for a Negro family in DuQuoin, Ill., a mining town. Part of the book's fascination lies in the background material—the mines with their explosions, cave-ins, strikes, and lockouts. The rest of the fascination stems from the character of the father of this family—Braxton Berkley.” New York Herald Tribune Book Review Zusammenfassung “This is a record, in retrospect, of course, of what life was like for a Negro family in DuQuoin, Ill., a mining town. Part of the book’s fascination lies in the background material—the mines with their explosions, cave-ins, strikes, and lockouts. The rest of the fascination stems from the character of the father of this family—Braxton Berkley.” New York Herald Tribune Book Review
