Author:Julia Mood Peterkin

Julia Mood Peterkin
(1880–1961)

American author known for her works concerning the Gullah people, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929 for her novel, Scarlet Sister Mary.

Julia Mood Peterkin

Works

Novels

Short story collections

  • Green Thursday (1924)

Individual poems

  • "Vinner's Sayings" (1925)

Individual short stories

  • "The Merry-Go-Round" (1921)
  • "Mose"
  • "A Sketch" (1922)
  • "A Baby's Mouth" (1922)
  • "Missy's Twins" (1922)
  • "Over the River" (1924)
  • "The Foreman" (1924)
  • "The Ortymobile" (1922)
  • "Cholera" (1922)
  • "Uncle Bill" (1922)
  • "Roots Work" (1922)
  • "Silhouettes: A Wife" (1922)
  • "Silhouettes: A Crutch" (1922)
  • "Daddy Harry" (1924)
  • "Ashes"
  • "Green Thursday"
  • "Missie"
  • "Meeting"
  • "Mount Pleasant"
  • "Finding Peace"
  • "The Red Rooster"
  • "Teaching Jim"
  • "Cat Fish"
  • "Son"
  • "A Sunday"
  • "Plum-Blossoms"
  • "Maum Lou" (1925)
  • "The Sorcerer" (1925)
  • "Manners" (1925)
  • "Whose Children?" (1925)
  • "A Proudful Fellow" (1928)
  • "Heart Leaves" (1929)
  • "The Diamond Ring" (1930)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.


This author died in 1961, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 63 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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