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Audrey Petty


Born
The United States
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Genre
Nonfiction, History


Audrey Petty is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A Ford Foundation grantee, her work has been featured in Colorlines, StoryQuarterly, and Saveur, among many others.

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Average rating: 4.22 · 694 ratings · 83 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors
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“I’m coming to the conclusion now with CHA and even with this country today: the laws they make is not the laws for us, the laws they make are to be exercised on us. Expediently.”
― Audrey Petty, High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing
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