Born: 1880, Laurens County, South CarolinaDied: 1961
Julia Peterkin was born in Laurens County, South Carolina, in 1880. Her first book, Green Thursday (1924), was published by Alfred Knopf after H. L. Mencken, who had become her literary agent, led her to Knopf.
Her books include Black April (1927), Scarlet Sister Mary (1928) and Bright Skin (1932). She collaborated with the photographer Doris Ulmann on Roll, Jordan, Roll (1933). Scarlet Sister Mary won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize, and she died in 1961.