Background
Hunter, Kristin Eggleston was born on September 12, 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of George Lorenzo and Mabel Lucretia (Monigault) Eggleston.
( Originally founded by runaway slaves, Lakestown, New Je...)
Originally founded by runaway slaves, Lakestown, New Jersey, is a black community populated by people from a variety of classes and creeds. When plans for a new highway are routed past a nearby wealthy white suburb but threaten the heart of Lakestown, its citizens are inspired by their Under-ground Railroad heritage and devise a series of hilarious plans to thwart the construction and to preserve their town and way of life. Unavailable for 30 years, this reprint is more relevant now than ever. Kristin Lattany has written nine novels, including the highly acclaimed children’s book The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou. A teacher of English at the University of Pennsylvania for 23 years, she lives in New Jersey.
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Hunter, Kristin Eggleston was born on September 12, 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of George Lorenzo and Mabel Lucretia (Monigault) Eggleston.
When she was aged 14, she began writing a column about young people for the Pittsburgh Courier, continuing to do so until 1952, the year after she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her bachelor"s degree in Education (1951).
She sometimes wrote under the name Kristin Hunter Lattany. She is best known for her first novel, God Bless the Child, published in 1964. Like most of her work, it confronts complex issues of race and gender.
Her 1966 novel The Landlord was made into a movie by Hal Ashby (United Artists, 1970).
In 1972, she began teaching in the English department at the University of Pennsylvania, eventually retiring from the university in 1995. She was also a visiting professor at Emory University.
Commenting on her own work, she said: "The bulk of my work has dealt—imaginatively, I hope—with relations between the white and black races in America. Since about 1968 my subjective anger has been emerging, along with my grasp of the real situation in this society, though my sense of humor and my basic optimism keep cropping up like uncontrollable weeds."
Personal life
She died in 2008, aged 77, of a heart attack after collapsing in her home in Magnolia, New Jersey.
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My early work was "objective," that is, sympathetic to both whites and blacks, and seeing members of both groups from a perspective of irony and humor against the wider backdrop of human experience as a whole.
Married Joseph E. Hunter, February 29, 1952 (divorced January 1962). Married John I. Lattany, June 22, 1968. Stepchildren: Leigh L. Norman, John I. Junior, Ramona, Andrew.