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The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life (1929) is a novel by American author Wallace Thurman that tells the story of Emma Lou Morgan, a young black woman with dark skin. It begins in Boise, Idaho and follows Emma Lou in her journey to college at USC and a move to Harlem , New York City for work.
He also wrote essays, worked as an editor, and was a publisher of short-lived newspapers and literary journals. He is best known for his first novel The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life (1929), which explores discrimination based on skin tone within the black community, with lighter skin being more highly valued.
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A Taste of Blackberries was rejected by several publishers who thought the main theme was too dark for children. Mortality had been a common subject in Victorian literature for young readers (see for example Oliver Twist), but books for young readers about death had become taboo until, in 1952, the appearance of E. B. White's classic Charlotte’s Web.
For her 1982 novel Marked by Fire, Thomas won a National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) [2] [a] and an American Book Award.Thomas has been one of three to five finalists for the Coretta Scott King Award thrice, in 1984 for Bright Shadow, in 1994 for Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea, and in 2009 for The Blacker the Berry.