ART QUOTE | THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN NOVELIST TO SELL A MILLION COPIES, ANN PETRY

“All truly great art is propaganda.”

— Ann Petry

Cover Image, Ann Petry, Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. Petry, Ann. Box 223. 1948 November 12. https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2022340.

Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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