The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences - Dorothy West

Dorothy West founded the Harlem Renaissance literary magazine Challenge in 1934, and New Challenge in 1937, with Richard Wright as her associate editor. She was a welfare investigator and WPA relief worker in Harlem during the Depression. Her first novel, The Living Is Easy , appeared in 1948 and remains in print. Her second novel, The Wedding , was a national bestseller and literary landmark when published in the winter of 1995. A collection of her stories and autobiographical essays, The Richer, The Poorer , appeared during the summer of 1995. She died in August 1998, at the age of 91.