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Popular As | Julia Peterkin |
Occupation | Novelist |
Age | years old |
Zodiac Sign | Scorpio |
Born | October 31, 1880 (South Carolina) |
Birthday | October 31 |
Town/City | South Carolina |
Nationality | South Carolina |
Julia Peterkin’s zodiac sign is Scorpio. According to astrologers, Scorpio-born are passionate and assertive people. They are determined and decisive, and will research until they find out the truth. Scorpio is a great leader, always aware of the situation and also features prominently in resourcefulness. Scorpio is a Water sign and lives to experience and express emotions. Although emotions are very important for Scorpio, they manifest them differently than other water signs. In any case, you can be sure that the Scorpio will keep your secrets, whatever they may be.
Julia Peterkin was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
An American fiction writer, she penned the novel Scarlet Sister Mary and won the O. Henry Award for her short story Maum Lou. Her other works include Bright Skin, Black April, and A Plantation Christmas.
She taught at a school in Forte Motte, South Carolina. She published her debut short story collection, Green Thursday, in 1924.
She won the Pulitzer Prize for Scarlet Sister Mary.
She and her three siblings were the children of a South Carolina physician. She married William George Peterkin in 1903.
She played the lead role in a Columbia, South Carolina theatrical production of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.