Background
She was born 21 April 1895 in Orange County, North Carolina, where her father was a country doctor.
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Oktawia Perry
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In 1916 she graduated from Woman"s College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), and three years later married Charles West. Perry.
Career
While a young child, she moved with her family to Durham, North Carolina. In 1963, Perry published My Head’s High for Proudness, a folk tale set in the North Carolina mountains and inspired by summers spent in Sparta, North Carolina. She published The Indian Bracelet, a children"s story, in 1982.
