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She has received a Lannan Foundation fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a 2012 Whiting Writers' Award, and she was a Fulbright <a class="showlessmore_link" id="u_10c00_showmore" onclick="truncate_show('u_10c00')" >show more</a><span class="hideme" id="u_10c00"> Scholar in 2007. Rhodes-Pitts was born in Texas and educated at Harvard University.</span> <a class="hideme showlessmore_link" id="u_10c00_showless" onclick="truncate_show('u_10c00')" >show less</a></div></span></section><section class="w_a_section" id="section_mainworks" ><h2 class="lt_turndown" id="u_6fc7" data-caret-id="tdc_u_6fc7" data-hidden-id="tdh_u_ca1d" data-visible="1" onclick="lt.newauthor.saveSticky("mainworks", event);;lt.turndown_toggle(this, event);" href="javascript:void(0);" data-duration="200" data-name="mainworks" data-group="worksections" ><i class="fa-solid fa-chevron-up turndown_indicator" id="tdc_u_6fc7" data-turndown-style="chevron" ></i>Works by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts</h2><span id="tdh_u_ca1d" ><a name="mainworks"></a><div class="section_controls"><div data-value="0" class="lt_pillbox lt_blend_nav small lt_small" id="recent_pillbox" ><a data-value="0" data-onclick="lt.newauthor.sortWorks('rhodespittssharifa', 0);" role="button" class="selected" ><span 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Lawrence, A Young Artist…</a> by <a href="/author/rhodespittssharifa">Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts</a></div></div><div class="" >Author's end note, and examples of Jacob Lawrence's work are great additions to this work.</div class="" ><span id="rate-u_53f57816" title="4.5 Stars" aria-title="4.5 Stars" class="rating rating-style-306 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><span class="rw"><input type="hidden" value="9" name="form_rating" id="form_rating"/></span><i data-rating_value="2" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="4" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="6" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="8" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="0" class="ratehalf selected" >½</i></span></div><div id="rfd_126057196" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_126057196"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"><div 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I was disappointed. I really wanted this book to ooze with all the Harlem goodies I imagined. There was no ooze. <br><br><i>"I don't remember a thrill that was specific to being in Harlem. The thrill was in the library. Harlem was the place I rushed past to meet it. The library was my true destination."</i><br><br>From Rhodes-Pitts we get present day Harlem with <u class="showmore_hide">some of the past sprinkled throughout. She makes seamless shifts between the past and the present. She compliments a current event with one from the past. There is a certain eloquence to the presentation but yet this eloquence is enveloped in boredom. Rhodes-Pitts is a Texas transplant to Harlem who really doesn't allow the city to seduce her. She seems to purposely stand on the side lines and observe with very little engagement. <br><br>Once people found out Ms. Rhodes-Pitts was a writer they either opened up to her or totally objected to their stories being written. The ones that gave their stories and were forth coming with their history of Harlem were stirring and reflective. One could not help but be touched by the story of Ms. Minnie Davis and all the neighbors that lived in Ms. Rhodes-Pitts building. It is clear that Rhodes-Pitts is most comfortable in the library doing research on Harlem past. <br><br>My favorite chapter and the one I found the most golden nuggets in was, "Into the City of Refuge." My entire perspective on Ralph Ellison changed after reading this chapter. Of course there were the "expected" mentions and thoughts on Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and others of the Harlem Renaissance but Rhodes-Pitts didn't dwell on the familiar people and places she dug out the obscure. The insight and background given on Arturo Schomburg and how he built his collection which was in turn turned into one of the most well known centers for African-American research made the entire book worth reading. <br><br>This book was a rollercoaster of highs and lows. One could definitely get the feel that Rhodes-Pitts never really had a connection to Harlem she just came for the research. I'm a Historian ( I have the student loans to prove it) and I am a sucker for the origins of things but there were parts of this book where I was bored to sleep, literally. I thought she would never stop describing the lives of scrapbooker, L. S. Gumby, and the flamboyant Raven Chanticleer founder of the African-American Wax Museum. These men had interesting lives but not enough to have almost entire chapters dedicated to them. 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