{"product_id":"2940016150376","title":"THE GOODNESS OF ST. ROCQUE and OTHER STORIES","description":"Alice Ruth Moore was born in New Orleans to middle-class parents Patricia Wright, a seamstress and former slave, and Joseph Moore, a merchant marine, who were people of color and part of the traditional multiracial Creole community of the city. At a time when fewer than 1% of Americans went to college, Moore graduated from Straight University (now Dillard University) in 1892 and started work as a teacher in the public school system of New Orleans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1895 her first collection of short stories and poems, Violets and Other Tales, was published by The Monthly Review. About that time, Moore moved to New York. She co-founded and taught at the White Rose Mission (White Rose Home for Girls) in Brooklyn. Beginning a correspondence with the poet and journalist Paul Laurence Dunbar, she ended up moving to Washington, DC to join him when they married in 1898.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe and Paul Dunbar separated in 1902 but were never divorced. He was reported to have been disturbed by her lesbian affairs. Paul Dunbar died in 1906.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   ...an excerpt from Wikipedia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS OF \"THE GOODNESS OF ST. ROCQUE AND OTHER STORIES\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GOODNESS OF SAINT ROCQUE\u003cbr\u003eTONY'S WIFE\u003cbr\u003eTHE FISHERMAN OF PASS CHRISTIAN\u003cbr\u003eM'SIEU FORTIER'S VIOLIN\u003cbr\u003eBY THE BAYOU ST. JOHN\u003cbr\u003eWHEN THE BAYOU OVERFLOWS\u003cbr\u003eMR. BAPTISTE\u003cbr\u003eA CARNIVAL JANGLE\u003cbr\u003eLITTLE MISS SOPHIE\u003cbr\u003eSISTER JOSEPHA\u003cbr\u003eTHE PRALINE WOMAN\u003cbr\u003eODALIE\u003cbr\u003eLA JUANITA\u003cbr\u003eTITEE","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169438580976,"sku":"2940016150376","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016150376_p0.jpg?v=1763629689","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016150376","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}