It’s Black History Month in the US - as I’m sure the majority of people are well aware. Here, I have two authors from my collection that I’m looking forward to reading.
Alexandre Dumas - Infamous for his timeless classics The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo (I always want to say Crisco, like the shortening that makes pastries and cookies so good, but so bad…), people often over look that fact that Dumas was born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) and was the son of Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman, and Marie-Cessette Dumas, an enslaved woman of Afro-Caribbean ancestry. I’m quite eager to get to the Count of Monte Cristo, perhaps this year and if not, then next year. One thing I look forward to most regarding Dumas is his humor.
Dorothy West - A novelist and short story writer during the Harlem Renaissance, mainly writing about the lives of upper-class black families. She wrote alongside notorious African American authors like Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, though she is often glossed over. She’s another author I’m eager to get to this year, and I’m leaning towards starting with this collection of short stories The Richer, The Poorer.
Have you read any of these authors works?
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