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Dorothy West Harlem Renaissance author dies at 91
Dorothy West, a pivotal Harlem Renaissance figure and author of The Living Is Easy, The Wedding, and later The Richer, The Poorer, dies at 91 in Boston. Born in 1907 in Boston, she rose from modest roots to literary prominence, edited journals, and spent decades on Martha's Vineyard shaping Black literary life.
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