Maria Light

Year of Publication
1962
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
181 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Lester Goran
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
City
Boston
Genre
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Abstract
Maria Light, a recent widow in the Addison Terrace housing project, struggles to provide for her three children and her elderly father-in-law.
Author Biography
Lester Goran (1928-2014), born and raised in a housing project in Pittsburgh's Hill District, was a novelist and professor of English at the University of Miami. He attended Pittsburgh's Fifth Avenue High School and Schenley High School and he earned a BA and MA in English at the University of Pittsburgh. For more than 50 years he wrote fiction set in Pittsburgh. He lived in Miami, Florida.
Time
1940s-50s
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