A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
By Betty Smith
(Harper Perennial Modern Classics, Paperback, 9780060736262, 528pp.)
Publication Date: December 29, 2004
Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Paperback (February 2008), Compact Disc (May 2007), Paperback (May 11, 2006), Compact Disc (January 2006), Large Print (December 29, 2004), Audio Cassette (December 2001), Hardcover (October 26, 2001), Audio Cassette (January 2000), Paperback (September 1998), Library Binding (December 1981)
Categories: Classics, Literary
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The American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.Betty Smith was born Elisabeth Wehner on December 15, 1896, the same date as, although five years earlier than, 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 also wrote other novels and had a long career as a dramatist, writing one-act and full-length plays for which she received both the Rockefeller Fellowship and the Dramatists Guild Fellowship. She died in 1972.
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