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John Bennett wrote and illustrated children's books. He was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. He wrote The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo with Seventeen other Laughable Tales and 200 Comical Silhouettes, which won the Newbery Honor in 1929.
Librarian note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
A good but strange macabre work reminiscent of Poe and associated with the Charleston Renaissance. Set in early nineteenth century Charleston, it’s a story that subtlety explores the realities of race in the Early Republic South.