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Betty Smith

(1896 - 1972)

Betty Smith was born Elisabeth Wehner on December 15, 1896, the same day (though five years earlier) as her fictional heroine Francie Nolan. The daughter of German immigrants, she grew up poor in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, the very world she recreates with such meticulous detail in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn . Smith...

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943)
   Tomorrow Will Be Better (1947)
   Maggie-Now (1958)
   Joy in the Morning (1963)