16 Facts About Julia Peterkin

Julia Peterkin was an American author from South Carolina.

Julia Peterkin wrote several novels about the plantation South, especially the Gullah people of the Lowcountry.

Julia Peterkin was one of the few white authors who wrote about the African-American experience.

Julia Peterkin's father was a physician, and she was the third of his four children.

Julia Peterkin's mother died soon after her birth, and her father later married Janie Brogdon.

In 1896, at age 16, Julia Peterkin Mood graduated from Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina; she earned her master's degree there a year later.

Julia Peterkin taught at the public school in Fort Motte, South Carolina for a few years, then married William George Peterkin in 1903.

Julia Peterkin was a planter who owned Lang Syne, a 2,000-acre cotton plantation near Fort Motte.

Julia Peterkin began writing short stories, inspired by the everyday life and management of the plantation.

Julia Peterkin was described as audacious as well as gracious by Robeson.

Julia Peterkin sent highly assertive letters to people she did not know and had never met.

Julia Peterkin was among the few white authors to specialize in the African-American experience.

Julia Peterkin won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929 for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary.

Julia Peterkin performed as an actress, playing the main character in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the Town Theatre in Columbia, South Carolina, beginning in February 1932.

In 1933, Julia Peterkin was contacted by Caroline Pafford Miller of Baxley, Georgia.

Julia Peterkin used the Gullah language in many of her novels and stories.