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Kristin Elaine Hunter (September 12, 1931 – November 14, 2008) was an African-American writer from Pennsylvania. She sometimes wrote under the name Kristin Hunter Lattany. She is best known for her first novel, God Bless the Child, published in 1964.
Kristin Hunter Lattany (born September 12, 1931, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died November 14, 2008, Magnolia, New Jersey) was an American novelist who examined black life and race relations in the United States in both children’s stories and works for adults.
Kristin Hunter Lattany is the author of Kinfolks, Guests in the Promised Land, which was nominated for a National Book Award, The Landlord, which became a motion picture, and a bestselling young adult novel, The Soul Brothers & Sister Lou.
Nov 14, 2008 · Kristin Elaine Hunter (September 12, 1931 - November 14, 2008) was an African American writer from Pennsylvania. She sometimes wrote under the name Kristin Hunter Lattany. Hunter was born Kristin Eggleston in Philadelphia, attended the University of Pennsylvania and wrote for the Pittsburgh Courier, a black newspaper, until 1952.
Kristin Hunter was thirty-five when Scribner released The Landlord, which would become arguably both her most celebrated and most infamous book. Unlike most Black writers of that period, Hunter wrote the book from the first-person point of view of the lead white man Elgar Enders, a rich man-child.
Brief Biography: On September the 12 th of 1931, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mabel Lucretia Eggleston (pharmacist and teacher) and George Lorenzo Eggleston (Elementary School Principal and US Army officer) gave birth to their only child, Kristine Elaine Eggleston Hunter-Lattany.
Sep 16, 2020 · The Landlord. Kristin Hunter. Courier Dover Publications, Sep 16, 2020 - Fiction - 272 pages. "An elaborate spoof that somehow manages to combine touches of the absurd and intimations of the...
