Dorothy West

Dorothy West (June 2, 1907 – August 16, 1998) was an American novelist and short-story writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was one of the few Black women writers to be published in major literary magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. She is best known for her 1948 novel The Living Is Easy, as well as other short stories and essays, about the life of an upper-class black family.