Growing Up Nigger Rich - Fortune, Gwendoline
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Through the complex web of this narrative, Gwendoline Y. Fortune juxtaposes "old South" and new, privilege and powerlessness, and various visions of racial identity in this refreshing, heartbreaking novel about growing up Negro and middle class in the South, and returning home.

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Through the complex web of this narrative, Gwendoline Y. Fortune juxtaposes "old South" and new, privilege and powerlessness, and various visions of racial identity in this refreshing, heartbreaking novel about growing up Negro and middle class in the South, and returning home.
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Born in Houston, Texas, Gwendoline Y. Fortune grew up hearing stories of her mixed blood heritage: a free-born black great-grandfather, Native Americans, Scots-Irishmen, a cowboy grandfather, a Confederate great-grandfather, and relatives who were missionaries in pre-World War II China. She went to college at the age of fifteen and has been writing ever since. Selections from Growing Up Nigger Rich, also published by Pelican, placed in the top twelve entries of the annual Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society competition and placed second in the National Black Writersí Conference Awards. Gwendoline Fortune lives in Saxapahaw, North Carolina.