Ann Petry was an American writer of novels, short stories, children's books and journalism. Her 1946 debut novel The Street became the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies; for its commentary on racism, classism, and sexism, it is widely considered to be a seminal work of African-American literature and American writ large. Her other works include Tituba of Salem Village and The Drugstore Cat.

Petry passed in 1997. In 2019, the Library of America published a volume of her work containing The Street as well as her 1953 masterpiece The Narrows and a few shorter pieces of nonfiction.

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