Kristin (Elaine) Hunter Biography - Kristin Hunter Comments:

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The bulk of my work has dealt—imaginatively, I hope—with relations between the white and black races in America. 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. 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.

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11 months ago

Linda cromartie-sewell

I am trying to locate an article by Kristin Hunter that appeared in Philadelphia Magazine and later included in Readers Digest June 1968. She used my life experiences as a young African American in the inner City of Philadelphia, Pa and helped me to relocate to a Busnell Florida to live with a white family