Ms. Meriwether wrote DADDY WAS A NUMBER RUNNER (1970) and SHADOW DANCING (2000), won the American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2016, and was great friends with Maya Angelou.

Yesterday we lost great novelist Louise Meriwether at her great age of 100. Louise Meriwether by Chester Higgins, 1998 (artsy.net) Ms. Meriwether wrote DADDY WAS A NUMBER RUNNER (1970) and SHADOW DANCING (2000), won the American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2016, and was great friends with Maya Angelou. She was one of the very few living Black women novelists I heard of in my youth…

Ms. Meriwether wrote DADDY WAS A NUMBER RUNNER (1970) and SHADOW DANCING (2000), won the American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2016, and was great friends with Maya Angelou.

Yesterday we lost great novelist Louise Meriwether at her great age of 100. Louise Meriwether by Chester Higgins, 1998 (artsy.net) Ms. Meriwether wrote DADDY WAS A NUMBER RUNNER (1970) and SHADOW DANCING (2000), won the American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2016, and was great friends with Maya Angelou. She was one of the very few living Black women novelists I heard of in my youth…