Louise Meriwether, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Louise Meriwether

American novelist

Date of Birth: 08-May-1923

Place of Birth: Haverstraw, New York, United States

Profession: writer, biographer, journalist, children's writer, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Louise Meriwether (born May 8, 1923) is an American novelist, essayist, journalist and activist, as well as a writer of biographies of historically important African Americans for children.
She is best known for her first novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner (1970), which draws on autobiographical elements about growing up in Harlem during the Depression and in the era after the Harlem Renaissance.