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Latest revision as of 03:13, 18 October 2025
African American short story writer (1907-2002)
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Edwina Streeter Dixon |
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| Born | 1907
Chicago, Illinois |
| Died | 2002 (aged 94–95) |
| Occupation | Author |
| Spouse | Albert Dixon |
Edwina Streeter Dixon (1907–2002) was a short story writer.[1]
Her most notable short story is “Pa Sees Again,” which was published in the Afro-American and the anthology Best Short Stories By Afro-American Writers (1925-1950).[2]
Edwina Streeter was born in 1907 in Chicago, and the census notes she was “mulatto.” According to the census, her father’s name was illegible and was from Tennessee. Her mother’s name was Abigail and was from Ohio. She had two sisters, Gloria and Georgia.[2]
The 1930 census notes that she had married Albert Dixon, and had a daughter, Joyce.[2]
- Dixon, Edwina Streeter. “Call it social security.” in ed. Musser, J. (2011). “Girl, colored” and other stories: A complete short fiction anthology of African American women writers in The crisis magazine, 1910-2010. McFarland & Co., Publishers. ISBNÂ 9780786446063
- ^ Fore, Melissa Kathryn, “Black women’s contribution to the little magazines of the 1920s and 1930s” (2001). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 2711.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/graduate_theses/2711 - ^ a b c Page, Yolanda Williams (2007). Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 161-162. ISBN 0313341230.
