(026888) Williams, Susan Millar. A Devil And A Good Woman, Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin. Athens, GA: Univ. Of Georgia Press, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 343 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. Neat ink owner's name on front endpaper. Signed by the Author on title page. Peterkin (1880-1961) revolutionized American literature by writing seriously about the lives of plain black farming people. A plantation mistress, she took up writing at age forty, produced two best-selling novels, and wom a Pulitzer Prize. Her fiction chronicles the collapse of plantation agriculture on the Gullah coast of South Carolina. She was the author of the famous book Roll Jordan Roll. ISBN: 0820319120 (Peterkin, Julia, Women Authors)