"An authentic everyday story of thousands of little families below the Mason-Dixon line, bound to the soil by poverty and blackness," noted Langston Hughes, favorably comparing this 1938 novel to Zora Neale Hurston's work.
African-American writer and actress Mercedes Gilbert (1894-1952) performed on radio and in the movies and television. She frequently appeared on Broadway, most notably in the all-black cast of Tobacco Road. Aunt Sara's Wooden God is her only book-length work of fiction.
