Lorene cary biography of william james

Lorene cary biography of william james: Lorene Cary: Black-life-mattering author,

Lorene Cary born [ 1 ] is an American author, educator [ 2 ] and social activist. Cary grew up in a working-class neighborhood [ 4 ] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In , she was invited to the elite St. Paul's boarding school in New Hampshire , on scholarship, [ 5 ] entering in St. Paul's second year of co-education as one of the fewer than ten African-American female students.

Paul's, graduating in Paul's as a teacher. After writing a article about her experience at St. Paul's, [ 8 ] she published a longer memoir, Black Ice , which was published in by Alfred A. In , Cary published her first novel, The Price of a Child. It is based on the escape of Jane Johnson , a slave from North Carolina who escaped to freedom with her two sons while briefly in Philadelphia with her master and his family.

Set in , the novel tells the story of Ginnie Pryor, a slave from a Virginia plantation who is bought by the US Ambassador to Nicaragua.